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Originally Posted by Coys1882
I get all that - I do. The story I read said this guy was shredded - literally ripped to pieces. What are they supposed to do? Maybe you can enlighten me - as I'm assuming from your posts you're ex-military, how would you have handled this situation? Applying gauze, administering morphine and holding his hand til he expires seems more callous to me.
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Yes to ex military.
Yes, your apply morphine and all that, you never know that single act of kindness could help you in intelligence gathering.
But I don't know what I would have done, I was never in a situation where there was a badly wounded combatant.
The only "combatants" I saw had been dead for a while.
But the rules are in place for reasons.
One of which was that Samrau is not a medical professional, he's not a corpman or medic, so how can he make a medical assessment on a wounded man.
Second of all, the minute that the man was disarmed he was essentially a prisoner of war, and again even though I don't agree with the application of the Geneva Convention to Taliban members, we were obligated under the rules of engagement to follow those rules.
I get the sentiment that the humane thing to do would be to pop the man, but its not the legal thing, and you can't really make the argument that I broke the established rules of military conduct because I had a humanitarian problem with their application.