Afghan Civilian Shootings by American Solider

Lord B said:
I would kill you, your entire family and everyone who was dear to YOU - the one who wanted to get my family killed. Assassin is a hired gun.
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Am I to understand that you would give the assassin - the person who committed the act of violence - a free pass, but you would kill innocent people? When you say "entire family and everyone who was dear to YOU," I assume you are including children, grandparents, etc.

That is shameful. If that is your meaning, your response betrays you for a thug.
 


Lord B said:
If they were in decision making capacity, torture and gas those Nazis. However, if it was a prison guard trying to make a living to feed his kids, then yes he was just following orders.

In the same ideology, I would rather see Josef Mengele being brought to justice, not the gas chamber operator. But if the gas chamber operator was the one deciding who gets gassed, only then he is guilty.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcvSNg0HZwk]Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment 2009 1/3 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzTuz0mNlwU]Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment 2009, 2/3 - YouTube[/ame]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmFCoo-cU3Y]Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment 2009, 3/3 - YouTube[/ame]
 
Check out the Stanford Prison experiment as well.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkmQZjZSjk4]Stanford Prison Experiment (Documentary) - YouTube[/ame]
 
They test thing on military all the time. They'll do things and never remember they happened. Not referring to this guy, but it happens to many.

It's in the Shots, the food, etc.
 
It's funny listening to a lot of you talk about the military. I'm not saying that you're wrong - it's just a humorous perspective from this side of the fence.

We do a lot of training with our Afghan Army partners. For a lot of guys who aren't used to being here, they immediately look at those guys with distrust. And you can't blame them. We hear stories frequently about the Afghan soldier who turned his weapon on Allied forces. This story of the U.S. soldier who committed this crime just goes to show you that there are bad people on both sides. Just as equally, there are good people involved despite the higher echeleon's big-picture priority.

A lot of us out here question whether our presence will actually translate over the long run, but I won't initiate that conversation.

And we're not mindless killing machines (fuck, our ROEs prevent us from killing anything anyway) - we know bull shit when we hear it, and a Battalion of enlisted will be the first ones to call an armchair-tactician on it.
 
Killing innocent kids is definitely not cool. That guy just lost it.

But where is the outrage and protests when the taliban or al qaeda drive a truck bomb into a hotel lobby or open market there in Afganistan? Where is the outrage and protest over the six soldiers killed over that accidental book burning.
 
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