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Somewhere alone the line it's become perfectly acceptable for these idiots to behead people, blow up pipelines, and kill police officers.... yet you have a US Marine in a combat zone who shot and killed someone who was trying to kill him and it's a big deal.
The Geneva convention says....
"Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat (out of combat) by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely...."
This doesn't seem to be a "wounded prisoner", but rather a soldier in the middle of a firefight who was playing dead. This wounder soldier may or may not have been armed - but that really doesn't matter; Being as they were in the middle of a firefight it's pretty safe to assume that this wounder soldier was armed and was just waiting for his chance to kill any Marine he could.
Let me put it this way. I'm a former US Marine, and if I found myself in a firefight with bullets flying over my fucking head I would kill anything that could be a threat to me.
It's that fucking simple.
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