Trump To Review Case Against Major Matt Goldsteyn – Charged w/ Murder for Killing Taliban Bomb-Maker

Because civilians, even in the total war of ww2 were not the primary targets, at least by the US.

 

In wars everyone who is not on your side is the enemy. No one is a civilian in wartime.

 

If the Japanese thought that their god-emperor was more important than all of the other Japanese people then they were just plain stupid.

 

The fastest way to win a world today is to target the people and not waste ammo on the enemy troops.

 

Never take prisoners during war. They are nothing but trouble and the only people who get in trouble are their guards.

 

You don't have to commit crimes to be unstable, so no, it isn't relevant. As for evidence that there is a large number of unstable armed forces members, one just has to look at the suicide rates in the military versus civilian rates.

https://backhome.news21.com/article/suicide/

 

By definition of the word civilian, this isn't true.

 

There is a point to that, but the US decided that targeted assassination should not be used.

 

Whats the suicide rate of transsexuals?

 

Some 500 men women (some were raped), children and infants were killed. That you support murder isn't a surprise to me in the least. That the south Vietnamese government didn't press charges mean nothing. The population knew otherwise.

 

Don't hold the past to today's standards.

Otherwise don't judge history to today's standards.

It's called revisionist history if you do.

Today young little Taliban leftist in America topple war monuments and statues to erase history in the name of political correctness.

Because they have been indoctrinated in PC revisionist history they are clueless that they are doing exactly the same thing the NAZI's did in Germany when they toppled statues of former German heroes and kings because they were part of the aristocratic German society in the past.

 

They were brainwashed. Its a subtle but important difference.

 

Pretty pathetic attempt at deflection. It was a war crime then as it is a war crime now. There can be no justifications to kill 500 unarmed people infants included. Yet you have fake moral outrage when it is Americans that are being killed.

 

An Army board of inquiry recommended a general discharge for Golsteyn and found no clear evidence the soldier violated the rules of engagement while deployed in 2010. https://www.armytimes.com/news/your...-murder-charge-for-2010-afghanistan-incident/

 

The President has the authority to execute American citizens without a trial? Where does that authority come from without a trial? American citizens have the right to due process.

 

Yes, was does have its own laws. And one of those laws makes it a crime to murder prisoners.

 

That's so ****ing stupid, I don't even know where to begin.

 

Just as moronic the second time around. How many wars have you fought in?

 

Yea he does.

 

Nope, involuntary manslaughter as his presence was not known to be in the vehicle and he wasn't the target.

 

Involuntary manslaughter is a crime is it not?

 

So something in that article and what got him investigated again was comments he made on TV where he admitted to killing the guy. Comments made in 2016 after the initial investigation where his lawyer said that his admittance of killing the guy was just revenge fantasy.

 

Absolutely.

 

That proceeding that you referenced is Completely Different from being found "Not Guilty" (which would refer to a criminal proceeding, such as a Court Martial).

Not even on the same planet.

Nice try, though.

 

It happens. What exactly happened in this particular case depends on which account you care to believe.