From her article:
"There's another lesson, an unofficial one, which will be passed among the troops themselves. Never surrender. They'll just kill you anyway. It's better to go down fighting."
Sad for these young people to have to face that harsh reality. But true.
> There's another lesson, an unofficial one, which will be
> passed among the troops themselves. Never surrender.
There may be a lesson before that one, too, one that I had
thought was already widely taught - don't chase perps in
Iraq - it's always an ambush.
There has been one report that the three attacked were
chasing attackers. I imagine there will be an inquiry,
and we'll find out.
Sad for the families, but it's really sort of amazing
that it's taken years for the first such incident to
happen, and it's encouraging that the kidnappers
could not use them for propaganda.