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Originally Posted by Skinwalker
Does the military even have the death penalty for rape and murder as a sentence? I'm trying to remember if the guys responsible for the Mei Lei massacre in Vietnam were executed or not. Anyone know? You may be calling for a sentence that they can't hand down in a military court. I don't really think that it is the basis that she was an Iraqi Muslim that this crime was committed, but rather that she was seen as a possession of the 'enemy' as so many women have been seen througout millenia. Women are always the ones who suffer most in war. Take the rape camps in Yugoslavia for example. It's actually a good thing that he was sentenced to prison for this term. There are many countries on the planet that wouldn't give a damn at all.
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And even the notion that there can be crimes committed against civilians by fighters is alien to the militant Islamist movement. For them, killing civilians is a core tactic.
Some people find it awkward when the US prosecutes its soldiers. It implies that there is at least a shred of decency in the US military ... a shred that is nowhere to be found in al Qaeda or its many ideological allies.