| I am a first time poster. Good view points on this issue. It can be debated on what is fair, It can be debated that "they do terrible things to us". It can be justified by their actions but here is a knuckle dragger view.
Warriors do understand both sides of this issue. Thet know and feel the anger at having to live with a code of conduct that the enemy will not adhere to. Certainly, we can do what they do....but we dont and....we shouldnt.
I see nothing in those photo's that makes me say, good job. What you see is cowards doing cowardly things to POW's. It wan not interogation, it was wunna be warriors playing bad ass with the helpless, unarmed, non-combatants.
I see and feel the anger all soldiers do about how our soldiers are treated as POW's by them. We are NOT them! We are or should be better than them. I fervently believe in closing with and destroying the enemy. We should do it with utmost efficiency, with malice, and with the intent and goal of their destruction. But when a POW is taken, we have people trained to interogate. My Code of Conduct does not allow me to butcher helpless people. It allows me to fight and win, kill the enemy....but humiliate prisoners for amusement. No. THe poeple doing these things to the POW's are cowards, just as the Terroists are cowards. What they have done has repercussions. Yes, we will get past it as one poster said, but it does not excuse the pure idiocy of the action.
Being a warrior and following the laws and codes of conduct are mutually agreeable thoughts. |