Reason No. 7 that going to war is a bad thing: the people fighting become emotionally damaged and predisposed to unnecessary violence.
Sooner or later we’re going to have tens of thousands of combat-hardened veterans returning to the United States. If we’re lucky, the trauma they’ve experienced in Iraq will only translate into a few additional murders and instances of spousal abuse. If we’re unlucky, we might have another Oklahoma City.
Oh yeah, I don’t think a video tape of a U.S. soldier shooting an injured man in a mosque will go over so well on the Arab streets, either.
I am in no way trying to defend this Marine (although there seems to be some circumstances that make it more understandable, just not any more legal)… but any “value” our enemies could have gotten out of that video will be lost now that video of the murder of Margaret Hassan is out there.
Killing an unarmed, injured militant is horrible. It’s inexcuable… but the terrorists always have a way of showing us just what real evil is.
… Yes like killing over a hundred of those commie liberals who were in control of Oklahoma.
CJ..two wrongs don’t make a right. It makes us look bad and turns people against us. The video of Hassan makes those insurgents look bad. However, I don’t think that there is one group of “insurgents” in Iraq. Those who don’t like what we did, can join a group of insurgents that have nothing to do with Hassan.