I find it difficult thinking of what those murderers are doing to their own people and to our people - and to those whose heads were cut off!!! I don't see any justice in our soldier's punishment. 'This kind of soldier' is over there protecting you... cut him some slack.
Bite your tongue!
I am going to assume that you have a sum total of ZERO actual military experience, otherwise you would not be saying such things.
What the bad guys did does not matter one whit.
What matters is the conduct of one that is subject to the UCMJ.
Do you realize that if a military member gets tagged for, say, DUI by civilian authorities that person is going to get whacked twice. Once by the civilians and then by the military.
Fair ? Yes, it is.
Think about what you are saying and who we are.
LVM
Ever served IN the military to understand all of the ramifications?
It's fine to look the other way when torture is used just because the perp is an American - one of "our guys"?
That alone makes it cool to you??
Think of the all the Hanoi Hiltons and the animals who ran those and tortured our POWs for years, and what our guys endured - German concentration camps - - and others.
The prisoner was not on a battlefield where he was a threat to the guards or others where some might have looked the other way to spare lives...
(Yes - I served in the U. S. Marine Corps at Parris Island during the Korean Conflict, instructing women recuits in the classroom - another war, with the development there of brainwashing as a technique against the American prisoners, and very frequent brutal torture - including torture of my own husband)