A friend of mine is in Afghanistan right now. When I asked him what he thought and this is what he said:
About the prisoner situation, I don't think it was neccesarily right what they did, but I don't believe the press should have made such a big deal out of it.
First of all like you said the prisoners are not soldiers but renegades and they themselves do not adhere to the the rules of engagement. While I do think it was poor judgment on the US soldiers parts and I think they should be punished, I hate to see such a negative effect on the way civilians view the rest of the military based on this and several other isolated incidents.
Some soldiers see first hand what these poor excuses for humanity are capable of doing, killing their close friends, using women and children for their advantage, and continually putting innocent people in harms way. After awhile your going to have some aggresion towards these people.
It seems like an overwhelming number of people want to judge us without walking in our shoes first and without realizing what we see. It can, in fact, change some of the views we ourselves used to have. But some people have really negative feelings about soldiers and I think they are ignorant for not at least trying to understand what we go through.
Makes you think, doesn't it?
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