Thursday, October 19, 2006
Soldiers Bound Over
All of our soldiers (and sailor) who were undergoing recently the military version of a preliminary hearing for rape and murder charges were bound over for court martial. Thus, there is the military equivalent of probable cause to believe a crime might have been committed. At the court martial, the standard will be proof beyond a reasonable doubt, moral certainty under Catholic epistemological concepts. If you recall The Dirty Dozen, the idea that our troops could also commit crimes is not unknown, but we hate to think of our guys doing such bad things.
I'm not buying the combat stress made them do it excuse. I think, if they are guilty, it was more the case of the temptation of thinking you can't get caught. I don't think the prosecutions will get a clean sweep of convictions, but some of these guys may be executed eventually, which is worse punishment than we've doled out to a captured murderous Jihadist yet.
I'm not buying the combat stress made them do it excuse. I think, if they are guilty, it was more the case of the temptation of thinking you can't get caught. I don't think the prosecutions will get a clean sweep of convictions, but some of these guys may be executed eventually, which is worse punishment than we've doled out to a captured murderous Jihadist yet.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 6:29 AM 
