The paradigm for the troops in Iraq was faulty.
4 of them have been charged with killing some
prisoners/ terrorists.
What they have been accused of doing is wrong,
and was against the law. No disagreement.
Now for the punishment.
I hope they look at the actions in context.
USA hires and trains the troops to be problem
solvers to think outside the box, especially when
it comes to saving American troopers lives, stopping
unnecessary deaths.
And they worked out a solution to the faulty
paradigm that was threatening their lives and
the lives of their troops/friends and killing US troopers.
The bad guys would get caught, (the guys
trying to kill them, and did kill some of the
USA troops), and would later be turned loose
to attack the same troops again.
Stupid double and triple jeopardy.
Paradigm Intel says, they started to arrest
and hold all the enemy personnel that
were captured.
And a few got a Lawyer, and got off,
then everyone was getting off on
a 'criminal logic' during 'war time' action..
And JAG determined they need evidence
to fight the lawyers in criminal courts.
And the Military trained the troops to
collect evidence, TRAINING: a 15 min. power point.
END OF TRAINING.
That is the context.
The Troops determined the same guys
were being released to attack them
over and over.
And they stepped outside the box,
and stopped them from attacking
them again. They shot them.
WERE THEY RIGHT?
Were the guys they shot
the enemy that was attacking them?
I think that doesn't make a difference
about guilt, but should make a difference
in the punishment phase.
The WAR paradigm changed on the troops.
They were poorly trained in a work around
to fix the broken paradigm.
And came up with an effective but wrong
method to fix the broken paradigm,
to save the lives of US troops, as a last resort.
The Military leadership knew the paradigm
was broken and were working on fixes.
But the Military leadership bears some
responsibility for putting the troops in
a reoccurring life threatening situation
from the same people the troops
kept arresting and turning over to
the authorities who then released the
terrorists, AGAIN.
Lets see if JAG has their heads up their
asses on this one too.
Maybe an Award? NAMES?
Yes, JAG is an expert on law,
But I'm not so sure how good
JAG is on handing out JUSTICE.
Gerald
Anthropologists
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