To send soldiers to a foreign land with the motive of defeating the enemy and then charging them as the bullets did not distinguish between foe and not-foe is I think a case of splitting the hair. The soldiers are typically being made into scapegoats and they have no one to look up to.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/06/marines.iraq.shooting.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
The post mentioned above is a classic case and I feel bad for the soldier who fired as per orders. I think the day the Army gets into a conscience-driven mode, we would have become a colony.
An order is to be executed and it has no conscience. The one who gives the order is the one who has to think of all these and decide and not the one executing it. By only going after the ones who execute the order is to try and console a child who is hungry. The root cause is to be addressed. The cause has to be addressed not the effect.
This is not America’s war, this is a war for mankind. We have been put into a situation that no one guy can resolve on his own. There is no hero here, there are sure going to be a lot many martyrs if at all.
The entire situation is painful as everyone jumped in on an emotional basis and did not really think of the long term impacts or if someone did then, that someone could not convince the powers to be about how bad an idea this was.
We are going to come out of this scathed no doubt, to what extent is something that we should decide.
