Anonymous wrote:Yes, we should have left him there to die!
I love playing g-d
Leaving him there is not playing God. 99.9999% of the time I would be all for doing whatever it takes to rescue an American POW, but in this case I just don't see how you can justify the lives lost and now the security risk to save a man who evidence strongly suggests abandoned his post and walked away of his own volition. I feel for his family and friends but at the end of the day, he made a bad decision that was his and his alone.
Either way, it doesn't answer the question of why on Earth Rice said something that everyone plainly knows not to be true - that he was captured in battle. She's not a moron, so all I can come up with is that she was lying, for what reason I'm not entirely sure. I want to believe there's a damned good reason for all of this, but I'm struggling at this point to even imagine what it might be.