[napscoordinator]

There has to be more to the story. This guys was an E-6 and it is unlikely that he would just “go off” like that for no reason.

[Doofer]

Can someone tell me why we’re there?

[darrellmaurina]

24 posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 8:44:37 AM by napscoordinator: “There has to be more to the story. This guys was an E-6 and it is unlikely that he would just “go off” like that for no reason.”

True.

104 posted on Sunday, March 11, 2012 1:57:53 PM by Pinkbell: “The whole goal of this nation building is to get the locals to trust us, and things like this do not help at all. I forsee protests at least as bad, if not worse, than the Koran burnings. The Taliban has already declared they will avenge, and angry locals could get behind them. With attitudes over there, they could very well take it out on the U.S. military as a whole instead of realizing that it was one soldier gone rogue.”

As others have said, this is a public relations nightmare, both for American forces in Afghanistan and for the military in the United States.

I know the man who will soon be in charge of PAO for American forces in Afghanistan. I may send him a note expressing my condolences for his recent promotion.