You bring out excellent points and I agree with you wholeheartedly with your statement “These prosecutions from combat mistakes should never happen”. Who with good conscience could prosecute such cases based on minutiae of events not only clouded by time but also the adrenaline rush of the moment. I pray for our soldiers and it tears at my heart to see them put through such ordeals to satisfy the politics of the time. I hunger for a leader that would put himself between our soldiers and the tribunals. Sadly we do not have one of those.
we live in an era when real leaders are put down, marginalized and crucified. I’m thinking of recent events when miltary leaders have experienced all of the above for their honest and truthful remarks. But political leaders face the same.
I was hoping this FR site might be one such place, but alas, is just another bunch of gripers that need a “weeping wall.”
And, we the public sit on our hands afraid to sing out and say, “enough!!”