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Originally Posted by Livia
It can't go unpunished for some. For others... it's carte blanche, it seems. We have to be understanding of the struggle of the terrorist... we have to keep the denial going.
Soldiers are human beings, they are not automatons. If a punishment is to be handed out it should be done within the Military.
If I could find the person who set the bomb that killed my husband, I would be happy to watch him incapacitated and then shot in the head.
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It isn't carte blanche and again it isn't even about the moral justifications for the action, it's about modern military powers maintaining order and discipline within their ranks. Your argument is that because an undisciplined, disorganised, primitive and barbaric guerilla-style military wouldn't think twice about killing an unarmed soldier, it should be open season for the militaries of supposedly more civilised countries to disregard the chain of command at will and do whatever they want, motivated by snap judgements and emotions, rather than their learned rules of engagement? Like I said, I'm not saying he should necessarily be "punished" in terms of being branded a murderer or put in jail... but a soldier who has lost control to that extent should clearly not be a soldier any more, for one, and again - more importantly - the message has to be sent to other soldiers that they can't carry out actions like this without fear of consequences. It sets an extremely dangerous precedent.