If reports prove to be accurate that this was murder, then the US should try the soldier for murder. The mayor of New York doesn’t apologize to the mayor of Los Angeles if a New Yorker murders an someone while visiting LA.
Instead, there is a murder trial. That is the most appropriate action. The USA did not murder anyone.
If there’s one thing I’ve figured out during the past 6 years it is to NEVER presume that stories of “massacres” on foreign battlefields are true. I think I’ll wait for all the facts to come in from sources I trust before I venture too far into this story.
FRegards,
LH
The soldier is in custody. He will be tried, but like I said earlier, it sounds as though he may have been suffering from PTSD from earlier deployment (s) to Iraq. His brigade has done three tours in Iraq, and was reassigned to to Afghanistan in December. The accused soldier just arrived in February.
It would be totally understandable for someone who was already suffering from PTSD to crack up under the circumstances in Afghanistan. While apologies to the Afghanis may be appropriate, apologies to our troops for sending them over there under Obama’s untenable rules of engagement should also be offered.
>> If reports prove to be accurate that this was murder, then the US should try the soldier for murder.
Apparently, the soldier took a damning blow to the head from an IED. Maybe true or not. I don’t know. There’s a lot of things we don’t know about this situation.
Let’s put the military judicial process before the apologies.