Thank goodness, Trump is smarter and more compassionate than you are.
Gallagher’s only crime was irritating a pompous Admiral who was mistakenly thinking he was God.
“...Trump is smarter and more compassionate than you are.”
Trump, probably, is not smarter than I am in this field. I was successful in it for almost half my life. His experience has a little over a year in it. He may have people directing him like the secretary of defense, but I believe Trump went out on his own with this one.
The compassion part of war is in the Geneva Convention and the follow on rules of conflict or engagement. One of the things in it is the proper treatment of killed. Gallagher didn’t and there’s no way of knowing how many people are going to be ill-treated by terrorists because of it.
We know they will respond if they are mistreated in their minds like the Charlie Hebdo attack for his cartoons about Allah where 12 people were murdered that had nothing to do with it. A military member that gets publicly recognized for mistreatment of an ISIS fighter like this, may create more attacks like the above.
This is why we don’t act like they do with public be-headings and raping of women to get them pregnant so they will lose their credibility with their own people like was done in Kuwait. Sound humane? Doesn’t to me.
rwood