[Bobalu]

Ok, it is a bit crude to pose with a dead terrorists body..I get that.

To be involved in war is to exist in a different world. No one who has not been there can possibly understand what that world is like.

The normal world's rules apply only loosely to the world of war.

Cut these warriors a LOT of slack. We ask them to enter that nightmare world and kill and maim in our name. Like it or not we are all responsible for what they do to cope...some fail at coping and end up as suicides.

We sleep soundly in our beds because hard men such as these stand ever ready to kill for us.

We can never adequately pay them for the things they do for us all...thank God that such men exist.

[kiryandil]

A buddy of the Naval Special Warfare commander Collin Green called up Rush Limbaugh today and spilled on what was going on.

The criminal JAG NeverTrumping Obama-ite slimelawyers were on a mission to "get" Gallagher, so they were advising Collin Green to go against the President.

[sauropod]

+1000!

[BuffaloJack]

I remember that photo of the GI with the cigarette hanging from his mouth.
There was quite a controversy when it first appeared years ago. Seems there were 2 versions, the original without the cig and smoke and the photo-shopped one with cig and smoke.

[gcparent]

Why were none of the others in the photo, including a superior brought up on charges????

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

I have remembered that picture forever.I wonder what happened to that Marine.Anybody know?

[Pollard]

The military made him into a bad ass and then want to punish him for being a bad ass.

[Jolla]

cut these warriors a LOT of slack

AMEN, I cannot imagine the horror they live with as most are kids that volunteer to enter hell.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Ok, it is a bit crude to pose with a dead terrorists body..I get that.

It’s actually against the Geneva Conventions if the body in question is that of a lawful combatant under the terms of those conventions.

But since the Conventions’ prohibitions are treated by terrorists as a manual on what to do rather than what to eschew, that shouldn’t be an issue.

[zeugma]

The normal world's rules apply only loosely to the world of war.

That is especially true in the sandbox, as very few arabs fighting would be considered 'lawful combatants' under the terms of the Geneva Convention. There are rules in warfare for a reason. In general, the convention's declarations are the codification of rules of combat that had evolved over hundreds of years and were designed to, among other things, minimize the collateral damage done to civilian populations in war zones. Since mohammedans don't actually recognize the rules of civilized warfare, we really aren't bound by those rules when dealing with the scum.