[discostu]

Well next time you're outnumbered a couple hundred to one by an angry mob with a camera behind you who'd love to get the scoop of Americans slaughtering innocent civilians (or being torn to pieces by them), then you can do things your way. As it is they did the right thing and anybody that thinks otherwise is just plain wrong.

[bvw]

Well, I'll take a mulligan on my comments, please. I am most definitely wrong to have second guessed the commander -- he did defuze a riot without blooshed, and such immediate effect takes complete precedence over any longer term risks. My most humble apologies! I was wrong - some circumstances in my own life since that last post have made that evident to me, thank G-d!

[george wythe]

Thank you for your clarifying comments on this article.

I did not see this on TV, so I was very glad to read your cogent explanation for the platoon commander's actions.

The article and the headline could have been more accurate, but thank God for the Freepers who can tell the whole story.

[nanny]

Of course, I am wrong - surely I must be -

I said I wasn't there and shouldn't second guess - actually, you see - none of us were there. We are sitting here behind our Made in China computers and commenting. Which actually makes any comment as good as another.

I still don't like the picture it puts in my mind.