Getting past the Kerrybushmcqueen bashing and back to the subject... These guys have been close fighting for over 30 hours without sleep. I can only have my own opinions from what I hear from the news.
War is hell, the news media is right there along side of these guys ( and gals) fighting. NEVER have we've seen war footage that is close up and personal every step of the way. We will see the good and bad of the war. I'm certain WW2 had more atrocities, but the lack of the media at that time never brought this to light.
These soldiers have come across dead bodies booby trapped, and this soldier they speak about was shot in the face the day earlier. They didn't know the exact facts of what/where/who fighting took place at that place earlier in the day. With all this confusion and mayhem I personally could see why he reacted in the way he did. I'm not sure under the same circumstances I would of reacted differently. I hope I would have the compassion to react differently, but I'm sure if 100 people WERE to be in the same circumstance you would have 50 different outcomes.
I am not passing judgement pro or con on this soldier, Nor do I want to play "monday morning quarterback" these are normal people put in horrible positions during war. It is sad they are there. War is horrible, for both sides.
With every step these soldiers don't know what lies around the corner, could be boobytrapped, could be an old lady strapped with explosives. It's hard enought to fight a war were you can't SEE the enemy, let alone having a camera following your every move, to ensure you "fight fair" within moral and legal "Rules". This is a war unlike all wars. The standard "Rules" of war went out the window long before we arrived. Firing gernades from a "church" sending human bombs into crowds, where are the rules????
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