2010/4/7 paul stenquist <[email protected]>: > You're right. In the Iraq war it's much harder for the > soldiers in combat to determine who is the enemy > and who is not.
Indeed. Warfare has evolved a lot since the fourties. :-( There are two things that really appalls me about the video. One is all the four letter words and the apparent attitude of the soldiers involved. They come across as trigger-happy and pretty much lacking in intelligence, both of the internal and the informational meaning of the word. The other thing is the subsequent unwillingness of the military forces to admit mistake. From the last sentence of the report in WikiLeaks, it seems it was a "case dismissed": "The military said the troops acted appropriately because the Reuters employees were more likely mixed in with the enemy fighters and were difficult to distinguish because of their equipment. " It's a Good Thing that such incidents are leaked, IMHO. No matter whose armed forces are involved. Jostein -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
