CASE IN POINT: Green Beret charged with murder in death of suspected Afghan terrorist
SOURCE https://nypost.com/.../green-beret-charged-with-murder-for-killing-suspected-terrorist/
Dec 14, 2018 - A former Army commando has been charged with murder for allegedly hunting down an Afghan militant suspected in the killing of two Marines and fatally shooting the man before destroying his remains. ... Mathew Golsteyn, a once-decorated Green Beret, tracked down the suspected terrorist ...snip
What kills me is that Bush & Rumsfeld were every bit as bad for prosecuting soldiers that didn’t memorize the 120-page primer on the rules of engagement. Apparently an enemy combatant playing dead and then reaching for a gun in their waistband isn’t grounds to shoot them. That’s not to say that Obozo wasn’t a real skunk on this, too.
For that matter, even the current administration has its problems. Mattis started out good but I think he’s made a career of kowtowing to leftists to advance his career and forgot how to deal with normal people. He got his stars in the Afghanistan and is emotionally tied to it. We’ll never bring around the Afghanis, you can’t help somebody that doesn’t want it. As much as I despise Obama, he ran on the platform of cold pull-out from Afghanistan and Iraq. That’s what the people voted for. OK, fine, he should’ve done it. If there’s a good reason for continued involvement in Afghanistan, the civilian govt. and military 4-star level has utterly failed to do their job and make that case to me.