“Hate to say it, but the SEALs deserve punishment if they acted unprofessionally in their duties. I just hope the guy resisted in order to justify the punch.”
When you start up the prosecution machinery against your own guys on so slight, so insignificant a thing as this then I’d say your tired of being a great nation.
It's a tough one. We are strict on our treatment of prisoners. OTOH, not much damage was done. IF *** BIG IF *** the SEALs acted inappropriately, then you'd think a Captain's Mast would be in order, not a full court martial.
But then we don't know the whole story. Perhaps it started as a Captain's Mast, but the SEALs refused because they know the prisoner is lying, and refusal usually elevates an issue to court martial. Now they get to show their innocence in the court martial.