It’s quite shocking to see what many soft trolls have written in this thread.
Things like ''it’s not good for winning hearts and minds'', it looks bad for US..., this cannot be tolerated.....
Especially the suggestion that 'it is not the best way of winning hearts and minds' made me cringe inside of me.
This is all what we can say on this barbaric act?
I have put following before in this forum, we have got a CENTCOM member on this forum, he always is very measured in responses and tries his best to convey their point of view.
Can someone simply put down the mission objectives that US and NATO set for themselves, when entering Afghanistan post 9/11?
And what are the objectives now?
I have asked many of my western friends, all what I hear is rambling on this or that, never a definitive answer.
100s such acts have gone unnoticed; I am amazed that even this story got out.
This Psycho went out on a killing spree.
The moron walked out of his base in Kandahar in the early hours of the morning, heading for the closest village home nearby. Then the cold blooded manner in which he went on a killing mission puts him on par with Taliban and even worst, from home to home, room to room targeting anyone insight, killing 9 women, 3 children and 4 men.
The ISAF spokesperson - Carsten Jacobson - had following to say:
Well we have to look into what motivation of the soldier - who is in custody - was at the time, all we know so far is he left the base, he returned to the base after the incident, he was taken to custody straight away and investigation is ongoing which would include what was the reasoning and what were the circumstances of his doings.
James Cunningham – Acting US ambassador to Afghanistan.
We deplore any attack by US armed forces against innocent civilians and denounce all violence... we assure the Afghan people that the individual or individuals responsible for this terrible act would be indentified and brought to justice
Is this going to become yet another pathetic general consumption material? I am amazed at media who would talk about it max for a week and then go hunting for another urgent topic for the ratings? Is this case going to be followed up?
I am not optimistic.