I agree totally. On another thread we were discussing Ken Burn's WWII movie. In it, one of the Marines talks about how his unit never took POWs after seeing the mutilated corpses after the Japanese were finished with them.
In other words, he confessed to a "take no POWs rule."
Since there's no statute of limitations, they could still charge those WWII vets. Why don't they do it, if they're so all-fired determined to rake a fine-toothed legal comb through every action that takes place on a battlefield?
Like Las Vegas.....if it happens on the battlefield, it stays on the battlefield. A battlefield is pure insanity, the rules that govern it are insane, and any outsider looking at it has to enter the insanity to even begin to understand it -- and it is impossible to enter the insanity.
What kind of farmer carries around a sickle on April 27?
Like Las Vegas.....if it happens on the battlefield, it stays on the battlefield. A battlefield is pure insanity, the rules that govern it are insane, and any outsider looking at it has to enter the insanity to even begin to understand it -- and it is impossible to enter the insanity.
Very well stated. I can only imagine the thought process of a GI after being in the battle for a period of time. They must never lose focus of the physical danger in front of them, and this kind of prosecution will get them killed...