'Kill team' US platoon commander guilty

[s1962a]

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This guy is one sick individual

[joe_90]

Train thousands of guys to kill, one is bound to enjoy it.. Hopefully the only one.

[badgers_back]

joe_90 said:

Train thousands of guys to kill, one is bound to enjoy it.. Hopefully the only one.

Its all about who they enjoy killing really.

[The Nur]

He kills people. It is what he does, what he was trained to do.

Shame they didn't give him a bit more training in how not to get caught really.

[s1962a]

For a bit of balance, the guys that did this would deserve it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15688354

[ApexJimi]

Pretty horrific stuff

On a lighter note, is anyone else slightly tickled by a guy called Stoner, reporting the smoking of hashish?!

[obob]

s1962a said:

For a bit of balance, the guys that did this would deserve it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15688354

Why would that give balance? You're allowed to kill Afghans because some other Afghans killed some other Afghans?

[Mr_B]

Not only a rather sick killer, but probably also responsible for recruiting ever more people to the Taliban with the resulting deaths of more US and UK and others.

[s1962a]

obob said:

s1962a said:

For a bit of balance, the guys that did this would deserve it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15688354

Why would that give balance? You're allowed to kill Afghans because some other Afghans killed some other Afghans?

Let me clarify. What I meant was that if someone is convicted of cold blooded murder like that of those women, then they deserve capital punishment in my opinion.

[HundredthIdiot]

s1962a said:

Let me clarify. What I meant was that if someone is convicted of cold blooded murder like that of those women, then they deserve capital punishment in my opinion.

How is that relevant to this case?

[s1962a]

HundredthIdiot said:

s1962a said:

Let me clarify. What I meant was that if someone is convicted of cold blooded murder like that of those women, then they deserve capital punishment in my opinion.

How is that relevant to this case?

I put the 2nd article on there to show that atrocities aren't just one sided.

[King Herald]

There's not a one of us who knows how we would react when exposed to the horrors of war.

Maybe we too would lose the plot and turn into some cold, callous savage?

[obob]

King Herald said:

There's not a one of us who knows how we would react when exposed to the horrors of war.

Maybe we too would lose the plot and turn into some cold, callous savage?

Still needs to be punished.

[HundredthIdiot]

s1962a said:

I put the 2nd article on there to show that atrocities aren't just one sided.

But what is your motive in countering this point-which-no-one-has-made?

Are you presenting this as some sort of mitigation?

"Yeah, we have psychos on our side, but they do too, so it all evens out".

That sort of thing?

From what I remember of the coverage, in this case one of the brigade told his father of the murders, and his father reported it to the base, and the base did nothing. It was only a subsequent investigation into cannabis use that led to the murders being properly investigated.

That's a completely systemic failure which seems to suggest that the US military takes drug taking more seriously than homicide.

Or that's how it looks, anyway.

There's strong whiff of Apocalypse Now.

[s1962a]

HundredthIdiot said:

s1962a said:

I put the 2nd article on there to show that atrocities aren't just one sided.

But what is your motive in countering this point-which-no-one-has-made?

Are you presenting this as some sort of mitigation?

"Yeah, we have psychos on our side, but they do too, so it all evens out".

That sort of thing?

You're reading far too much into it. I read the story of the soldier and then came across the 2nd story. In my mind they were linked so I posted it.

[King Herald]

obob said:

Still needs to be punished.

Yes indeed.

But it brings to my the old phrase: There, but for the grace of god, go I.

Easy to condemn him as psycho material, but not a one of us knows how we would react in similar circumstances.

[JensenA]

The Nur said:

He kills people. It is what he does, what he was trained to do.

Shame they didn't give him a bit more training in how not to get caught really.

Er no.....he was trained to be a soldier, not a killer. I guess you apply the same logic to the Nazi soldiers who ran the concentration camps do you?

[Disgusted]

Godwin!

[The Nur]

JensenA said:

The Nur said:

He kills people. It is what he does, what he was trained to do.

Shame they didn't give him a bit more training in how not to get caught really.

Er no.....he was trained to be a soldier, not a killer. I guess you apply the same logic to the Nazi soldiers who ran the concentration camps do you?

Apologies, I thought you would be able to tell from the second sentence that it was meant with my tongue firmly in cheek.

Although, admittedly, it was a little dry.

[Babu 01]

joe_90 said:

Train thousands of guys to kill, one is bound to enjoy it.. Hopefully the only one.

Article said:

Then it happened. Pretty much the whole platoon knows about it. It's OK with all of them pretty much. Except me.

Seems like the odd one out was the one with a functioning conscience.