These insidents will only convince your enemy to HATE you. They'll think twice before offering any surrender to you, since they're as good as dead if they do.
The US army should pretty well know that, for it has quite some roots in military history.
When the Germans were spotted mass-executing US captives in the fall of 1944, there were US soldiers after that surrendering. This may have fused the perhaps finest dig-in in US army history in the bocage. Surrender? NUTS! Vot? GO TO HELL!
In short, conducts like this provoke very strong resistance. And then: play like this, you are at the same level as the enemy, so who is the bad guy?
THEY ALREADY do hate us. obvously your way doesnt work.
our soldiers are trained to fight. they are the best in the world. there are none better, or better equipped.
it's a crying shame that they are not allowed to use their excellent training and equipment.
war is bad.....we all agree on that. the fact is though, that it happens, and will continue to happen. while the insurgents continue to fight without rules, and the US continues to fight with rules, this will go on forever. this could stop in less than a month if our military were allowed to actually fight.
and now, after having people they thought weren't combatants shooting at them, snipers shooting from houses, then when they go in there, every occupant says it wasn't them, sidewalks blowing up due to explosives being embedded....car bombs, suicide bombers, these poor guys have to totally tubular worry about civilians THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN IN COMBAT JUDGING THEM? are you people insane???????
if it were reversed, do you think the iraquis would have shown any quarter to our men? i think not. if they were in the house where fire came from, they were combatants.
let these guys do their jobs. if they do something wrong, let military courts handle it.
