Quote Originally Posted by AdamGB View Post
Quote Originally Posted by JazMerkin View Post
I get sick of the 'war is tough' argument to excuse whatever a soldier does. Do we excuse the 9/11 hijackers because they felt they were in a war?
It's a bit far fetched to compare mistakenly shooting at some people you perceived as a threat to you/your comrades to deliberately flying jetliners into two skyscrapers full that you KNEW were office workers - not soldiers.

I don't see the double standard.

The lack of compassion is disturbing though, which is the point I'm making - to my knowledge none of us have been in or been conditioned to function in a warzone.
The idea of the gunmen being merely mistaken went out of the window when they shot at the people helping the wounded guy - The van with the kids in it.

Triggy happy gunmen who've played too much Call of Duty sprung to mind. It makes you wonder how often this sort of thing happens. Not just by the US military mind.