Part of me wants to get this guy to realize how much he has jeopardized the entire mission...
There is no out on this one. None. If 0bama pulls the guy out of the country all hell will break loose.
If we conduct a military trial and they determine he is mentally ill, thereby avoiding death...all hell will break loose.
And putting him into a Afghan civilian court...well, we all know how that is going to end.
I also see this as a bonus for 0bama. The loss of Afghanistan can now be blamed on this man too.
There is no out on this one.
Stop being a citizen of the world.
Some Freeper on another thread last night suggested that this incident involved more than just a lone soldier who had snapped.
Watch how muted the Afghan response (other than the predictable public statements from all these people) is going to be. They were willing to riot in the streets and kill U.S. soldiers over a Koran-burning because everyone from one corner of the planet to the other knew that the U.S. government and the military would simply cower in fear, beg forgiveness, and take a couple of extra measures to further emasculate the troops over there.
This is different. The knowledge that one or more of these "invaders" was capable of walking off his base one night and slaughtering families in their sleep is likely to put fear in people -- in both Afghanistan and the U.S. -- that they never felt in the ten years since the U.S. military arrived there.
What "mission" might that be, dude? There is no mission to speak of, which was probably one of the biggest reasons why this sort of thing happened.
So let all hell break loose. We don’t owe the afghans anything and we certainly aren’t obligated to sacrifice one of our own to their irrational manner of thinking.