No one should be able to prosecute someone for war crimes unless they serve on the front line themselves.
Agree. I hold his superiors responsible for not removing him from combat duties years ago. Too much.
My father arrived on Saipan as part of Navy construction battalion, just after the island was liberated.
He befriended some Marines, and was given a Japanese company or battalion flag that one of them had from a captured in bunker complex, as a gesture for a couple cases of beer and some cigarettes my father had access to. My father later donated it to a museum
He talked to the Marines and asked how they got it. One of them said “first, we had to kill every.single.jap we saw. After that, taking it was easy.”
A bureaucracy that trains a man to kill, sends him to god forsaken places in the mid-east in endless war, to battle the government’s declared enemies - and then prosecutes him for taking a photo with a damned corpse isn’t fit for purpose.
I guess the jury is all military which I feel is fair.