Filling The Swear Jar...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
This Navy SEAL thing has me positively inconsolable, and Little Deebow and Household 6 had to put up with quite a rant yesterday in the car. In fact, there might be enough money in the swear jar at this point to buy an NFL Franchise...
Here was my question at the end of it all; Does anyone give a flying crap whether or not a man who was the mastermind of the murder and desecration of 4 good men was punched in the face?
Not me... Not even a little bit.
And knowing a little bit about this community (I wasn't always an MP), I can tell you that this comes down to two options as to the origin of this; Either their commander would not defend them or their actions (one of the jobs of a leader is to shield their men from crap like this) or it comes because it was command directed from much higher in the food chain (likely from someone who couldn't find the trigger on a rifle, let alone summon the will to squeeze it).
Either way, my advice to these men who find themselves in this situation, and to others who are serving is one thing:
5.56 holes make invisible souls...
Anything that was a briefed as a "Kill/Capture" to me had the effect of emphasizing the "Kill" portion in my mind instead of "Capture." I find that it is nice to capture a target whom you can interrogate who might tell us things we don't already know, but if we kill them, we have a twofold solution; 1) they can't carry out their evil plans and (2), we still know exactly what we knew before the tango bled out.
No matter how I look at that, that looks "win/win" to me...
We send these men through the hell (they call it Hell Week for a reason) to ensure that at the moment of truth, they will eviscerate their enemy. Now we are worried about some terrorist a$$monkey getting a split lip? These men are not day care workers with jump wings and they are not deployed to bad places to coddle the evil. They are warriors Men who will truly fight; and this terrorist is lucky to still be around to steal oxygen from those more deserving.
Prosecuting them for having a dangerous nature is like hating the sky because it is blue.
Next time fellas, shoot 'em in the face... Twice...