Originally Posted by GusGus:
“A couple of Paras are to face trial in N Ireland over the shooting dead of an IRA man years ago
Soldiers are not social workers, they are trained to kill and nobody should be surprised if they do
Where will this end, any survivors of WW2 getting prosecuted. War is war, and people get killed. In Balckmans case this unarmed mans hew shot was a Taliban fighter, no innocent”
“A couple of Paras are to face trial in N Ireland over the shooting dead of an IRA man years ago
Soldiers are not social workers, they are trained to kill and nobody should be surprised if they do
Where will this end, any survivors of WW2 getting prosecuted. War is war, and people get killed. In Balckmans case this unarmed mans hew shot was a Taliban fighter, no innocent”
"War is war", as statements go, is rather meaningless. Yes, people get killed, but there are rules. Blackman was very obviously aware of those rules as he broke them. That makes him a war criminal.



