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2015-05-17 Afghanistan

Army Weighs If Ex-Green Beret Hero Should Be Dismissed

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-17 07:02|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Wars are not going to be won with ROEs that don't permit taking out an enemy bomb maker who killed two Marines. We would have never won WWII with what's going on today. We'd all be speaking German or Japanese if we weren't dead.

Posted by JohnQC 2015-05-17 08:07|| 2015-05-17 08:07|| Front Page Top

#2 and Brian Williams corroborated his story

Posted by Frank G 2015-05-17 08:12|| 2015-05-17 08:12|| Front Page Top

#3 The last thing the Obama administration needs is a bunch of Marines running around Afghanistan killing bad guys.

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-17 08:15|| 2015-05-17 08:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Brian Williams? WTF then, it must be true.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-17 08:29|| 2015-05-17 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 ...I never saw combat, and the closest I ever got to a combat zone was Korea and Saudi Arabia. Having said that, it's still my take here that MAJ Golsteyn - with motives and feelings anyone can understand - went free-lancing and tried to cover it up. There are lines you don't cross, and this appears to be one of them.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2015-05-17 09:48|| 2015-05-17 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 Some of the Men, his peers have said he has gotten a bad rap and it's too political.

I tend to agree. This guy has done too many things right for this snub.
Check his record out.

Posted by newc 2015-05-17 12:32|| 2015-05-17 12:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Ditto Mike. Returning to the scene and burning the body, a very bad indicator.

Posted by Besoeker 2015-05-17 12:34|| 2015-05-17 12:34|| Front Page Top

#8 Didn't realize he's not fighting a war, but rather participating in humanitarian kinetic action?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2015-05-17 13:02|| 2015-05-17 13:02|| Front Page Top

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