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Originally posted by CAMOKAT
Bashing? You damn right I was bashing?. They are supposed to be fucking soldiers!!! Soldiers that obey the rules of combat.. instead they took humiliating pictures as trophy.. Note that those assholes weren?t even in combat.. same lame ass prison guards? They neglected every rule of combat. Geneva convention rules. Same rules that US initiated in 1946 ? what makes them better than Nazi soldiers taking pictures with their prisoners?
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All the knowledge I have of Nazi Germany was taught to me by teachers that didn't even know the true origin or meaning of the swastika so I'm not even going to say I know what really happened there.
I have not served with nor have I ever come across any nazi soldiers, so I can not tell you what the differences are, or who is / was better than who, but in common, they obeyed orders, which is what a "soldier" should do, regardless of MOS, personal feelings or morals.
Does this looked fucked up and wrong? On the surface, of course it does. However, no one will probably ever know what exactly was going on when these stupid pics were taken - I'm guessing it was all during interrogations, but speculation either way is just that... speculation. The media has done a great job making this a bigger mess than it already was.
As you well know war is hell and bad things happen. Always have, always will. To think everyone, or anyone for that matter, will always comply with the rules of The Geneva Convention is just asking for disappointment. Personal feelings WILL come into play and people will not always act sanely in insane environments. Justification? No. Just reality.
Anyhow, to somehow think that things will eventually be solved with a chess game over coffee and tea is just hopeless wishful thinking. War is bad. People are going to die, people are going to be mistreated and people everywhere are going to object. Those are certainties.
Just a general side note:
There sure are a lot of "peace loving" people here that like starting confrontations.
