On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote:
> A punishment more fitting the crime. If the soldiers are in charge of
> upholding the law then shouldn't their be a policy on what punishments and
> how to dole them out.

In a perfect world, that would be nice.  AFAIK, most military aren't
trained as police, currently.

> You said it's during war-time so anything goes.

I said no such thing.

> If that's true then shouldn't a civilian stealing lumber from a
> construction site be ignored under the "anything goes" policy?

It's clearly not true, but if it were and as you would prefer, the
military were to ignore civilian crime, where would you draw a line?
Looting?  Robbery?  Armed robbery?  Rape?  Murder?  What police
activities should the military train for?

-Cameron

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