Posted on 02/08/2003 10:11:24 AM PST by Clive
Maybe we should take any prisoners we capture,and put them into consueling? Pay Dr.Phil and Oprah to take care of them and explain to them that none of this was really THEIR fault,but the fault of their parents for inflicting a deprived childhood on them? We could even pay the SS disability,and provide them with free housing,medical care,food stamps,subsidized rent,preference in college admissions,etc,etc,etc. OR,we could just kill the SOB's.
They didn't know specifics because they didn't care. They DID know they would be "striking a blow against America and killing Americans",and that's all they needed to know to volunteer.
So how can some Afghani running around in the hills be aware, much less responsible?
You ain't been paying attention,have you? They teach holy war in their mosques,and pray for your destruction several times a day. This is what is uniting them.
He makes perfect sense. Byron,it is clear you have no understanding of guerilla warfare,or how to counter it. You mean well,but are wrong.
If he descerates the enemy's body, it's only a matter of time before he desecrates his friends.
Where the hell are you getting this stuff from? It sure as hell ain't based on fact.
WHOA,there,Bucko! There is a HUGE difference between sending the enemy a psychologocal warfare message by doing something like taking a dump on one of their bodies,and torturing a live enemy prisoner!
HorseHillary! Recon teams do NOT torture POW's,period! Number 1,they are in the enemy territory by mission definition,and they can't afford the noise. Number 2 is their duty is to return POW's to the rear ASAP so that intelligence officers can question them. Number 3 is it is a HELL of a lot harder for a small force to capture a enemy soldier than most people think .Number 4 is a POW is a incredible danger to your team,since he slows you down and and takes away the focus of at least one of your team members who has to watch him all the time. Nobody with the brains Gawd gave a pissant stayed in the bush a instant longer than they had to once they captured a prisoner. You called in for a extraction so you could get him back to the base camp so the intel people could pick his brain as soon as possible. Number 5 is a tortured enemy will tell you anything you want him to tell you in order to make the pain stop,so nothing he tells you has any value.
He may well have cut some ears off. I remember hearing a LOT of these BS stories,but never once ran into anybody who personally knew somebody who bothered with this nonsense. ESPECIALLY not recon people,who generally have to haul ass after a firefight,and are lucky to have enough time for a document search. These stories started because some of the CIA teams in the early days were supposedly paid for body counts,so bringing back ears was a way for the indig to get paid for killing a enemy soldier. All a American would have gotten for having a cutoff ear would have been a courtmartial. As for cutting off limbs,what would even be the purpose of that?
Jihadis ARE civilians for the most part, and from the looks of the posts on this thread, we have a lot more in common with them that we are willing to admit.
Thank God that those members of our Armed Forces present understand that this is about our standards, and our honor.
Yup,executing them would be perfectly legal under the rules of land warfare,but torturing them would NOT be legal. It would be a war crime.
Where?
The Australian SAS warrant officers I trained with near Saigon surely weren't delicate individuals.
WHOA! Let's back up,here! He MAY have been charged with comitting a war crime according to the internal laws on Canada,but he didn't commit a war crime according to international law,and as far as I know he wasn't accused of comitting a war crime. I suspect he was charged with something like the Canadian version of "Conduct unbecoming a soldier",or "Acts contrary to good order and disclipline". People can project that into a war crime if they want,but that doesn't make it so.
I'm sure all of this would have happened if he had of been a Al Qaeda soldier who had been disrespectful to a fundie Muslim Chaplin. Most likely they would have executed him on the spot. Then again,THEY want a religious police state. Is that what YOU want? It sure sounds like it.
So what? Who the hell is the Chaplin,anyway? Other than a parasite,that is. "Disrespectful" is as close as I've ever came to praising the bastards.
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