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[quote=jsteele][quote=takoma]Second, Obama said we must have accountability.  If the sentence is anything but death, Afghanistan will be outraged.  But many, if not most, Americans will react like 11:00 and say it was an understandable, though tragic, result of what the soldier has gone through, and will strongly object to a death penalty.  The campaign will make a football out of it if decisions are made before November.[/quote]

In this case we actually have a comparable crime: the killing of 13 people at Ft. Hood.  In that crime, Nidal Malik Hasan has been charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and faces a possible death sentence. Mental health issues will possibly be part of Hasan's defense. So, if the soldier in Afghanistan were also charged with an appropriate number of counts of premeditated murder and faced with the death penalty, it would seem even-handed and would not prevent him from using mental health issues in his defense. However, I think this entire discussion is moot as these investigations and legal proceedings take so long that nobody in either the US or Afghanistan is going to wait for them to concluded.  Reactions will be coming immediately.
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