American soldiers in a country trading belligerents, cannot be “murdered.”
They were killed in an act of war. They are legitimated targets.
I am sympathetic to this family. But words have meanings. War is war. People get killed in wars. We need to start speaking in plain language.
Better question is what were they doing in Jordan? What was their mission? Who were they training and for what purpose and end?
Those were rhetorical questions and of course the answer is that they were helping the “good” jihadis, like we previously helped the “good” jihadis like Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan 30 years ago.
How the war agitators in think tanks and at the Weekly Standard and the National Review were able to manipulate the average American Christian into believing that the operation to remake the Middle East was somehow in America’s and Christianity’s interest— when it was counter to both— will confound those a thousand years hence.
It seems like our military is now being fully used to further the interests of anti-nationalist globalist elite neocons. Not America. I hope to God this ends with Trump. I also hope he abolishes the Department of Defense and reverts it back to the Department of War.
Yes, that too. The wording bothered me.
They were over in a hostile region taking sides in a civil war. The soldiers were not at fault but their commanders and our political leaders are.