To your point 2. There is EVERYTHING wrong with a hearing like this. They soldiers were operating within the ROE in effect in the field. They had PID on a known terrorist that gives them a green light to ventilate. This so called general is killing moral, even the lawyers, after investigation signed off on the shot a righteous.
There is EVERYTHING wrong with a hearing like this.
No, there's not.
If the facts are as presented, it should be a very SHORT hearing, which is the outcome I would prefer.
But now let's look at the circumstances of his death. The bad guy was, in essence, assassinated. I don't have a particular problem with that for specific and well-defined cases, but I also wouldn't want to see assassination become a general tactic: too much opportunity for our actions to go awry, and too much danger that it would turn the Afghans against us.
Accountability is a good thing in that case: it would help to limit assassinations to the "specific and well-defined" category.
Exactly right -
r9etb - You're absolutely foolish to suggest there is nothing wrong with what is taking place here - Murder charges being brought against this two warriors is ridiculous (I won't use the words I should). AAR clearly cleared these men to begin with.....That such charges have been brought is foolishness beyond words. It is legal bureaucrats (and some with a cause) trying to make themselves relevant.....at the expense of these two warriors lives...and our NS.
Yes, both men will be cleared. But that has nothing to do with the damage that will be done in that process.