keyword there is “friendly”. If these two had gone hiking in a “friendly” country this would not of likely happened. Fact of the matter is, I have no sympathy for these two idiots. As a former soldier I loath people that either through utter stupidly or just sheer ignorance. Either way you put hard working, hard charging soldiers at risk, and you put your country in a position of being susceptible to exploitation. There is no defense for these two morons.
I don’t consider Iraq a hostile country, and if it is, then we should pull out immediately. I flatly don’t believe the Iranian government line that they illegally crossed the border. They were on their way to see some stupid waterfall, which apparaently, is a popular hiking destination in the Kurdish region.