Upset and Pissed Off
I was in Vietnam during the My Lai incident. At first we tried to rationalize the actions of Cali ants came out I felt he should have spent life in prison.
The recent events are un-folding the same way. The more that is revealed, the less it looks like an isolated event I can no longer rationalize the actions. The pictures are and continue to do serious damage to our country yet the ghoules in the media continue to air them. IMNSHO everytime they show the pictures they do additional damage. We are no longer showing our integrity, we are displaying a weakness which will be exploited to the fullest by our enemies, foreign and domestic.
OTOH please don't preach the Geneva Conventions to me. Frankly neither I nor anyone I served with had any dilusions about being treated humanely if captured. In some respects, the GCs define "acceptable ways" to kill and maim one's enemy. Blow off their head but don't embarrass them.
The conventions were formulated in a different time. We no longer fight conventional troops in a conventional manner. Then the normal POW was a front line troop who after 24 hours had no information of tactical use. If you can't get information within one or two days you can send him to a POW camp where he will be treated properly until the war is over.
A reason for interrogating detainees so long today is not for tactical information but because they may give information concerning their organization and people involved in the organization.
That said, stow the pictures and let the prosecutions begin. However, let's not be so PC that we open the door for another 9/11 or worse. Let's don't end up "Dead Right"!!
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