Post by scriboniuspompa on Apr 10, 2012 12:04:23 GMT -5
sgt. bales went off base and killed 16 afghans. he will be charged with committing a crime against afghans on afghan soil. why then is he not being tried in afghanistan by afghans?
as someone else said, would we have been satisfied in 2002 if the taliban had tried osama bin laden for his part in the destruction of the world trade center and the murder of nearly 4,000 persons?
of course we would not. we wanted custody of his person and to try him ourselves, under our own laws or whatever laws we would invent for the occasion.
now the tables are turned, and is it we who are protecting one of our own who is thought to have committed an act of terrorism. and now we follow a different set of rules.
don't you find that hypocritical?
let us consider what happened when american airmen went off base in okinawa and raped and killed an okinawan girl. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident
were those airmen tried in the united states by an american military tribunal?
no. they were tried and convicted and sentenced by a japanese court under japanese law and served their time in the japanese penal system.
why the turnaround on bales? is "amerian military justice" a fiction for enabling whatever our leaders see as politically expedient?
as someone else said, would we have been satisfied in 2002 if the taliban had tried osama bin laden for his part in the destruction of the world trade center and the murder of nearly 4,000 persons?
of course we would not. we wanted custody of his person and to try him ourselves, under our own laws or whatever laws we would invent for the occasion.
now the tables are turned, and is it we who are protecting one of our own who is thought to have committed an act of terrorism. and now we follow a different set of rules.
don't you find that hypocritical?
let us consider what happened when american airmen went off base in okinawa and raped and killed an okinawan girl. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident
were those airmen tried in the united states by an american military tribunal?
no. they were tried and convicted and sentenced by a japanese court under japanese law and served their time in the japanese penal system.
why the turnaround on bales? is "amerian military justice" a fiction for enabling whatever our leaders see as politically expedient?