After all the bullsh!t we have seen in Iraq and Afghanistan over the course of more than 10 freakin’ years, I don’t the U.S. military has the moral authority to charge this guy with any kind of crimes.
After Haditha and Lakin, I trust the military leadership almost as much as I trust Obama. Probably because they do whatever Obama tells them to do.
I read an article by Michael Yon today, where he says that he raised concerns about some of the soldiers he was embedded with and the military’s reponse was to kick Yon out of the embed program. He said that the troops are pretty demoralized by being put in a situation without enough troops and with ROE that make the mission impossible. Reading the description of this guy who the military claims went on this rampage - decorated soldier wounded seriously twice in Iraq including brain injury and a serious leg injury, told he wasn’t going to go back into combat and then suddenly in December he was sent to Afghanistan, not eager about the whole thing - and realizing that after only about 3 months ni Afghanistan he “snapped”, I’d say this could be another situation like Nidal Hasan, where there were warning signs and somebody made a bad decision to put him where they did.
None of that excuses what this guy did, if he did it. But it makes me question whether we’re being told the whole story - or ever WILL be told the whole story.