This is not true "Combat" though. Nobody was fired upon, and no threat had truly been identified. It is not uncommon for people in that region to walk around with machine guns... hell they take them to weddings. Take a dozen of those helicopters back in time, and you would could win WWI with them. This is 2 guys, in a 100 million dollar helicopter with a cannon on it that will rip a man in two vs. 8 - 12 guys that may or may not have an RPG. And a couple AK 47s. I tend to know a little about weapons, and I have never seen an RPG launcher that looks like a white Canon long zoom lens. This was absolute overkill.
I understand that war = death, and there is always gonna be an imbalance of power. But shooting a crawling maimed dying man? Begging for him to grab for a weapon (his canon rebel) so you can blow him to pieces and get off on it?
Some people say these are "stone cold super pilots" I beg to differ, their monologue kinda makes them sound like juvenille sadistic killers. Real heroes there.... real heroes. But no American will ever look at it from a neutral perspective, and will defend these guys to the grave, even though what they did was horribly wrong, even if it was an honest mistake.
Make sure you kill them all! They don't believe in our way of life and they have lotsa oil.
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