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Rules of engagement, general war-weariness (4th tour of duty), dealing with a vicious and treacherous foe he witnessed TIME AND AGAIN masquerading as one of us and then turning weapons against NATO or American forces.

WE need to get out of Afghanistan and we need to recognize we are in a worldwide war with Islam. WE can’t win THERE while we pander to Islam HERE. Nor can we force these savages to form a nation state in the image we would like.

This act was a fallout of the idiocy of George W. Bush and the current administration - fighting a war without goals against an enemy which is the totality of the people over there.

We need to understand that nation-building is wrong. That the only justification for military intervention anywhere is our immediate or long range interests, and that wars need to be waged quickly, brutally, definitively and be followed by an immediate pullout and no apologies.

Frustration period.
Four deployments, one head injury, trying to protect a bunch of dark age savages that hate him, commanded by civilian leaders that hate him as much as the dark age savages that he was trying to protect, his close friend has his leg blown off the day before by the dark age savages he is trying to protect.
I would say frustration with the rules of engagement is just one of the components.

I also say if he is found guilty and his sentence is more than say 50 lashes with a wet noodle, we should raise holy hell. More hell than the OWS mob ever dreamed of raising.