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This legal crap is just making me crazy.

I am currently listening to an audiobook called “Lone Survivor” about Lt. Michael Murphy who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in Afghanistan, and there is a great deal to do with the perception that the deaths of the three Navy SEALs (including LT Murphy) was a direct result of their fear of legal action due to the influence of the MSM on the conduct of war.

They came across a couple of goat herders (one was 14 years old) while in surveillance of a HVT in a village. They discussed amongst themselves whether to kill the pair, and eventually voted to let them go. Part of it was due to the fact that they knew they would possibly be tried for murder, because the Taliban would most certainly have gone straight to Al Jazeera when they found the bodies. They were in a tough spot.

They could not hide the bodies, because there was no way to bury them (they did not have entrenching tools, and the terrain was too rocky anyway)

When the two did not show back up in the village, the people would definitely have gone out looking for them and found them.

And they could do nothing about the large herd of goats. So even if they had killed the pair, it would not likely have gained them much since they couldn’t dispose of the herd of goats which would have led the Taliban right to the guys who were in an extremely exposed and indefensible area.

Personally, the surviving SEAL who wrote the book is berating himself visciously and vigorously for not killing the two in cold blood, but...I think he is too hard on himself. It was simply a no-win situation. And killing two unarmed people, one a child in cold blood to save your own skin would have had a price of its own. It is disturbing to hear this poor guy just tear his decision to pieces and berate himself for making it.

I bring this up, because it is just another example of how the shadow of liberalism and the MSM has fallen over our men in combat and the way they make decisions. I think this guy is blaming it on the MSM, but I wonder if he is doing it partially because he cannot blame himself enough. It is extraordinarily sad to hear. And hearing about this legal crap is just the negative icing on the cake for me today.