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**NewYorkDoctorD** · 03-03-2011, 03:35 PM

Andrew,

This sucks and I wish we were out of Afghanistan but we aren't out of Afghanistan so the soldiers, marines, airman, and swabbies have to do their job. These accidents are tragic and we wish they wouldn't happen. The problem is that those we are forced to fight (by the command of our elected civilian officials, yes, that includes Obama and his surge) don't wear uniforms or stay on military bases. They hide amoungst civilians, dressed as civilians, and act like civilians. When the target isn't clear these kinds of mistakes are inevitable. Those who are truly at fault are the native Afghani insurgents.

Those TRULY at fault are the war makers.

at least that used to be the American position

“Any resort to war—to any kind of war—is a resort to means which are inherently criminal. War inevitably is a course of killings, assaults, deprivations of liberty, the destruction of property. An honestly defensive war is—of course—legal, and saves those lawfully conducting it from criminality. But inherently criminal acts cannot be defended by showing that those who committed them were engaged in a war, when war itself is illegal. The very minimum legal consequence of the treaties making aggressive wars illegal is to strip those who incite or wage them of every defence the law ever gave, and to leave war-makers subject to judgment by the usually accepted principles of the law of crime.”

Justice Jackson's Opening Statement at Nuremburg

03-03-2011, 03:35 PM	#24
NewYorkDoctorD Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 428 Senior Member	Andrew, This sucks and I wish we were out of Afghanistan but we aren't out of Afghanistan so the soldiers, marines, airman, and swabbies have to do their job. These accidents are tragic and we wish they wouldn't happen. The problem is that those we are forced to fight (by the command of our elected civilian officials, yes, that includes Obama and his surge) don't wear uniforms or stay on military bases. They hide amoungst civilians, dressed as civilians, and act like civilians. When the target isn't clear these kinds of mistakes are inevitable. Those who are truly at fault are the native Afghani insurgents. Those TRULY at fault are the war makers. at least that used to be the American position “Any resort to war—to any kind of war—is a resort to means which are inherently criminal. War inevitably is a course of killings, assaults, deprivations of liberty, the destruction of property. An honestly defensive war is—of course—legal, and saves those lawfully conducting it from criminality. But inherently criminal acts cannot be defended by showing that those who committed them were engaged in a war, when war itself is illegal. The very minimum legal consequence of the treaties making aggressive wars illegal is to strip those who incite or wage them of every defence the law ever gave, and to leave war-makers subject to judgment by the usually accepted principles of the law of crime.” Justice Jackson's Opening Statement at Nuremburg
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