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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]Has anyone considered that the Green Beret was punished to protect him and other US military members? It's possible that Afghan commanders don't like getting their asses kicked by uninvited foreigners and are inclined to administer their own justice in response. That could easily be in the form of Martland and a humvee-full of his colleagues getting blown up by a "Taliban" IED.

The bottom line is that our leadership has put winning the war ahead of protecting children from rape. It is not that far removed from putting the killing of a militant ahead of the lives of children when a missile is launched from a drone. Lot's innocent people are harmed in wars. That's one of the best reasons to avoid them. 
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And Jeff finds a way to, once again, exonerate Obama.

If our men were actually armed on base, those three men would have had a fighting chance. They were left sitting ducks DESPITE their pleas.

The punishment - a dishonorable discharge - goes way farther than it needs to.

Was Obama's support of Berghdal also for the protection of our men? [/quote]

If Obama did nothing and allowed Bergdshl to be beheaded to all to watch on the Internet the right-wing outrage machine would have been jumping up and down while hysterically demanding retribution and blaming Obama for failing to do everything in his power to protect one of our own.  Sending our enemies the message that we don't value the lives of our servicemembers has repercussions in terms of how prisoners are perceived and treated.  Those we are fighting against don't draw distinctions between soldiers captured because they abandoned their duty post and those captured on patrol or kidnapped from a forward operating base.[/quote]

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