“How is posing with one’s unit lined up behind a dead body lying on the ground, with calm faces and no shenanigans, the equivalent of public beheadings and torture, pray tell?”
There were other pictures besides the one you mentioned. See below:
From the Navy Times:
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/07/03/seal-sentenced-for-posing-with-dead-detainee/
” One image shows him clutching the hair of the corpse with one hand and holding a knife in another.”
“I put a black eye on the two communities that I love — the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy — specifically the SEAL community,” he said.
This Navy Times, like the Air Force or Army Times, is not a liberal publication. It is written for the military services by the military services. And they identified the pictures in the article that are in question.
One of the biggest problems we can have in trying to discourage the mistreatment of our prisoners, or deceased, is having this type of publicity get out. We are already working with a questionable phylum of people that are willing to die for their God by killing as many infidels as each one can. They don’t bargain, they don’t tell the truth, and they have been supporting this type of behavior for centuries. So to antagonize them with a behavior that is substandard to the rules we follow, the Geneva convention, and to mock their beliefs, is another excuse for them to hit someone somewhere to, what they consider, get even. And if they have prisoners, you can be assured they will kill or torture them with relish to harm us. That’s what terrorism is about. This was why the killing of Bin Laden was an issue.
These people, the Islamist enemies of the US, are animals, not what we could consider humane people. And their system of financing and political support, along with their brain washing and training facilities scattered all over the world to include different states in the US, is a strong display of their danger to the world. And we are trying to stop them, not invite further terrorism and harm more people.
rwood
Thank you for your further explanation. I had only seen the one photo.
Just as this war had new dimensions in the damage done by plastic explosives, shoulder-fired missles and child terrorists, as well as new emergency medical responses in theater, I concede it is important to tailor new troop behaviors against this particular enemy, to minimize avoidable lethal retaliation.
This case was complicated by bad behavior on the part of the JAG officers, something that happened also with Derrick Miller and several others who were caught up in the lies not only of the muslim “witnesses” and bystanders, but also those of the prosecutors. I think Trump wanted Gallagher freed because of those procedural missteps more than the photo faux pas.
This Navy Times, like the Air Force or Army Times, is not a liberal publication. It is written for the military services by the military services. And they identified the pictures in the article that are in question.
Up until very recently they were owned by Gannett AKA USA Today. Fake News HQ. I doubt much has changed in their Never Trump editorial policy.