War Crimes charges......hmmmm, cmon!
I was never a great fan of his, but something doesn't seem right with this. Lot's of things just don't add up for me. Australia is losing or has lost it's moral compass.
We invited the president of Israel to come to Australia, who In December 2023, was photographed signing an artillery shell during a visit to the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) border area near Gaza. He knew the bomb was headed for Gaza, to kill civilians. In my mind we should have snubbed him.
We employ our soldiers for a reason - to destroy our enemy's and help protect our nation. BRS is one of our most decorated soldiers. How on the one hand can we decorate him with such pride and nationalism, and now years later charge him with war crimes? He's gone from our most celebrated hero to the worst of worst criminals - it doesn't compute.
I don't know what it's like being a soldier, but I do understand war is bad and soldiers see things and do things that don't fit in with practices that wouldn't exist when there is peace.
Something isn't right, it doesn't pass the pub test. Why would the Australian Federal Police spend so much time and resources hunting one of our most decorated soldiers, who has already been discredited? In my mind he should have been left alone after the various media witch hunts played out.
Brains trust.... help me make sense of this crazy world we are living in right now.
I can help, drop the idea that you know anything factual about world politics, and what a media company said was true
Select to expand quote1728 said..
I can help, drop the idea that you know anything factual about world politics, and what a media company said was true
Yeah, bummer, I am thinking the same. I want to go back in time, when journalism counted for something. When greyscales or even color was tolerated and debated. Somewhere in last decade we have become more polarized that we only see black or white.
BRS maybe did bad things, but he did good things while serving our country. He has already been stripped of his credibility as a hero. Nothing can be gained by criminally charging him.
I tried to explain this to you before MSN.
We, in the West, can no longer accept the concept of winning a war. Because it means there will be losers. And losers are victims. And for us, victims are now apparently heroes because they cannot be accused of having privilege.
B-R-S is being investigated because we sent him to fight but prevented him from winning. And now we have to make sure that we have got not only victim-equal-opportunity but also victim-equality and victim-equity. We need a sacrifice to our God of introspective shallow self-flagellating wokeness, and he is it.
Select to expand quotemyscreenname said..
BRS maybe did bad things, but he did good things ...
Everybody does bad things in war. It is what war is, loads of people doing bad things to each other.
If you don't want it to happen then don't start a war. Otherwise you got to accept it.
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Everybody does bad things in war. It is what war is, loads of people dong bad things to each other.
If you don't want it to happen then don't start a war. Otherwise you got to accept it.
Yes, that's the general understanding of war and what we expect of our soldiers. They are paid to do a dirty job. What happens in war should stay in the war, as the thin red line between right and wrong is a blur.
I don't think anyone benefits from rehashing possible crimes that our most decorated soldier may have done while serving our country during a war carried out over a decade ago.
What message does this send to anyone now serving in our defense forces?
Select to expand quotemyscreenname said..What message does this send to anyone now serving in our defense forces?
Don't kick unarmed prisoner in handcuffs off a cliff and order him killed.
For SAS to testify against him he must be very unliked.
Select to expand quotehilly said..
Don't kick unarmed prisoner in handcuffs off a cliff and order him killed.
For SAS to testify against him he must be very unliked.
So SAS should be trained not to kill and are further required to be liked by all their peers?
Sounds like you want the SAS to be made up of Gomer Pyle's
Select to expand quotemyscreenname said..hilly said..
Don't kick unarmed prisoner in handcuffs off a cliff and order him killed.
For SAS to testify against him he must be very unliked.
So SAS should be trained not to kill and are further required to be liked by all their peers?
Google "Geneva Convention" and after that "Code of silence" to understand what I was saying.
Select to expand quotehilly said..
Google "Geneva Convention" and after that "Code of silence" to understand what I was saying.
Great, we both understand the definition of what war crimes and genocide are.
Tell me.... why does Australia 'invite' and roll out the red carpet for the president of Israel on one hand and on the other choose to arrest our most decorated soldier, BRS, with the other?
I don't quite get it.
Explain that to me like I'm 10yo headmaster.
