[TalBlack]

How odd. In NYC when a sword wielding naked guy THREW AWAY his weapon and rushed a girl cop she sprayed around enough lead to hit other cop or cops. She was held up the next day in public as a paragon of courage and police virtue by none other than the idiot Bloomberg. I believe she got a medal. This poor soldier was patroling the wrong damn place, it seems, or he his the wrong gender...or something.

[fr_freak]

As the "initial aggressor" for engaging in an unauthorized interrogation of a naked detainee, Michael, the court upheld, had lost his right to self-defense. Under consideration was whether at any point in the split seconds during which the detainee hurled a piece of concrete at Michael and rushed for his gun, and Michael fired in return at the detainee, Michael ever regained it.

My first thought here was that I wished we had the same standard for law enforcement in this country with regards to their behavior toward our own people that we have for our troops' behavior toward an enemy populace. Imagine any cop getting convicted for shooting a suspect who "lunged for his gun". It wouldn't even make the news. But let a guy in a combat zone shoot an enemy combatant, who had previously blown up a few of this guy's fellow troops, who was lunging for his gun and suddenly we have to determine whether the right to self defense was re-acquired.

Sometimes I get the feeling that we sent our troops off to the middle east, but WE are the ones who ended up living in occupied territory.