Originally Posted by MinnieMinz:
“I was talking generally, about people he would have lost while at war from within his unit. I'm sure you know that however and are just either baiting for being argumentative for the sake of it.”
No I wasn't baiting. I genuinely thought there might have been part of the story I wasn't aware of?
If he LITERALLY HAD just witnessed the same Afghan kill one of his friends then I could kind of understand it. It would still be wrong under the Geneva convention I guess, but as a human being I could empathise with him.
That's not what happened though so people need to stop making stuff up to justify what was a cold-blooded execution by a man who was fully aware of what he was doing.
To repeat the point that's been made before, if it was the other way round - i.e. an Afghan troop executing an unarmed, wounded British soldier - would you honestly be making the same excuses about war being war and us not understanding what its like to be an Afghan fighter in that situation?
Maybe I'm wrong, but I sense that a lot of the support for Sgt Blackman such as we've seen in the Daily Mail and on here is purely down to blind patriotism and if it was the other way round many peoples reaction's would be completely the opposite.