re: #52 BigPapa

On your second point, I understand. Young, at the end of a highly emotional event loaded with adrenaline, I can understand how it happens and could see myself doing the same thing, at that time and place at the same age. This is why they should be judged by their peers. This is also the reason why the US deploys ‘professional soldiers’ who volunteer, to control this stuff.

The Taliban is not encumbered by those rules. We are, we have made that choice to be encumbered by those rules. That is why the there is an investigation and probably discharge or punishment.

These professionals, no matter how laden they were with adrenaline and nerves, must be aware of the consequences that their actions will have for their fellow professionals.