One little problem with such high morals is that the other side does not share them. They *never* wear uniforms, so *always* are indistinguishable from civilians. In fact they hide among civilians, using them as human shields. They usually don't even shoot at our troops when the troops can see them, instead they plant roadside bombs and detonate them from "civilian" houses and shops, all the while having no visible weapons and appearing quite "non-threatening".
So just how do you propose to deal with such enemy tactics. Let 'em kill your buddies before you can go after them, and then only if you catch 'em in the act?
This particular case is just crazy, if Sgt. Sandoval was not guilty of murder in the shooting, does that not imply that the shooting was justified under the ROE? Which in turn implies that the targets were insurgents, or acting sufficiently like them in a war zone to justify shooting them. So the Sandoval is guilty not of a cover up of murder, since he was justified in shooting them, but of trying to avoid the very thing which indeed happened, being accused of killing them without justification. The real justification not being something obvious to an after the fact investigation.
“One little problem with such high morals is that the other side does not share them.”
Oh, okay. Let’s stoop to their level and share their disregard for human life. Sickening.