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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The human rights issue is SEPARATE from what the soldier did.  The human rights issue is not new, it has been going on for hundreds of years.  It is something for the UN to deal with, the US is not and should not be the policeman of the world.

The officer's assault on the Afghan policeman was an unlawful, unsanctioned act of vigilante justice, which is illegal under the UCMJ.  It's the second thing, not the first, that he is being punished for.  In the military, discipline and chain of command is core and central.  If people in the military start behaving like loose cannons and start doing whatever they want, the entire system breaks down.[/quote]

So you think that child rape should continue on US military bases and that when people see something they should not do anything about it.

Got it.[/quote]

The green beret who was discharged, that didn't happen on the base.  Some of the anecdotes in the NYT article seem to have happened on base, which is bad.  But they're not very specific or detailed, so it's hard to know exactly what happened, where, were there consequences, etc.  As for when US soldiers discover it happening elsewhere, I think they should report it properly, rather than beat up Afgans.  
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