How many more marines will die if the President supports this guy? Despite the fact he was doing the right thing to most people it does look like murder, and if the president says that it was ok then thousands more arabs will rise up in Iraq, some of whom will be able to kill more marines, so more people die in the long run. This guy has to be thrown to the wolves to make sure that the wolves dont bite back even harder
"Thousands more Arabs" aren't going to rise up in Iraq. Arabs are cowards, always have been, always will be. There are a finite number of wingnuts among them - and the more of that particular kind of violence-inclined Arab we kill the better off the rest of the Arab world will be. Not to mention the FEWER extremists there will be for us to fight later.
It must suck to be an idiot.
Yea, we wouldn't want to actually win a war for a change now would we? Your sentiments prove the wisdom of the saying "No good deed goes unpunished"
Wonder who is going to be foolish enough to willingly fight the next war? I sure as hell would not want to fight for the PC crowd in DC these days. But I have the feelng that this one is going to bring a terrible price to all those willing to throw ths fine young man to the wolves. This one is easy to understand, the motives of those dissing the Marine are easy to understand.
In the first place, this might actually SAVE Marine lives, as now the remaining ambulatory fertilizer will think twice about pulling the same trick, and some not-yet-recruited-as-a-target Arabs might get the hint that we're not playing games here.
In the second place, combat OFTEN resembles murder. Those who have watched too many cop-and-courtroom dramas on TV will continue to have no clue. This Marine was under NO responsibilities to put his life and the lives of his team in jepaordy to preserve a Terr's life. What it RESEMBLED is completely irrelevant.
Third, those "thousands" of terrs "rising up" has been predicted from day one. Most are still no-shows, and those who ARE dumb enough to "rise up" are mostly already there.
And a good chunk of those are now feeding worms. More to come.
I appreciate your point of view, but that's essentially the Pontius Pilot response. I do not believe in selling people out to get along.
Terrorists are shoot on sight. I don't care if they guy was sitting on his front lawn in a chase lounge. If he was carrying on terrorism prior to that, he'd dead meat.
There are no rules of combat that relate the how you treat terrorists. This was a war zone. It was a mosque. The terrorist was carrying on operations from a religious facility.
Good ridance. This was NOT murder IMO.
Meanwhile, in the real world...
You need to get out more.
Contrary to what some peoples "feelings" are about anything happening in Iraq, the war is ongoing, and Fallugah is a mop up campaign against the enemy.
BTW, who are the "most people" you refer too?
They are not the "most people" I know.
Like I said, you need to get out more.