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Comment Re:Feh (Score 1) 698

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manslaughter#United_States_Law_2

2. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/promoting-hope-preventing-suicide/201006/making-them-feel-not-alone

3. http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1677546&cid=32483118

I understand where you're coming from, but I do not like where you're going. The only resolution for your demands is to completely remove our soldier's ability to initiate combat entirely, which as shown by the video already required several authorizations and confirmations before they went ahead. The appearance was even that the enemy had fired and was getting ready to fire, so even saying that the enemy must fire first does not live up to these standards.

I'm sorry, but barring severe disability, childlike naivety, or plain insanity everyone that goes towards a combat zone in order to accomplish an objective within the combat zone damn well ought to evaluate those risks before achieving that objective. Bridges and buildings have a pretense of safety, an obligation to humanity to operate in a manner which is not grossly negligent or predatory. Soldiers, armies, combat zones, etc. function without any such pretense, in fact, the context is so fundamentally opposed that I cannot understand why nobody has pursued Reuters for providing inadequate training for an employee given an incredibly hazardous task.

Now, I'm not saying that nobody should be punished, but I cant see any cause for legal liability, not by that video alone. Find a policy or procedure they did not follow and you might have something, but that video does not present anything blatantly negligent.

Comment Re:War is not pretty (Score 1) 698

Jeeze, you're a douche. I'll tell you, if I was a psychotic asshole looking to pick people off for shits and giggles the very last people I would fsck with would be reporters, it's kind of the same thing with serial killers targeting hookers, you're not trying to get caught. This was an accident, a tragedy, but not intentional as far as I can tell.

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