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Originally Posted by baddog
I would not risk lives to try a deserter.
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But you are missing a lot of steps here....
We don't know if he was a deserter, and if he was he need to be found to protect our internal security - imagine having a traitor with his knowledge working for the other side. Even if he was only an E5 or whatever, he still has a lot of knowledge of operational security, etc, how things are done. And if he was a deserter he is now a criminal and we should pursue him until he is caught.
Your logic is "he is a deserter, let's just let him go". It doesn't work that way. You don't just desert the Army in combat zone, go over the enemy, and the US military and the US government forgets about it.