“They’re our allies and I’m happy they’re safe. That said, very troubling episode. I certainly couldn’t treat them as returning heroes.”
You will read the stories over the next several months how the British government mistreated them. Watch and see.
IMHO, if I were a marine, my enemy was two feet in front of me, I had no handcuffs on, I was on camera in front of the entire Muslim world, and I knew that killing this person would change the face of the world, I would have strangled the bastard.
This was a no-brainer for a marine. You give your life for your country. He would have given his life for humanity.
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Thank goodness our military still has integrity and courage. If I lived in England, I would be ashamed and fearful.
Except that footage would NEVER get aired on state controlled TV.