Potential Memorial Day Pardons

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(11-19-2019, 04:44 PM)Dill Wrote: "I think the citizenry of A-Stan care a whole lot less about the method(s) we use to kill terrorists than we do"

That "clearly answers" a question like this: "Do Afghans care how we kill terrorists?" 

My actual question was "How do you think Afghans and Iraqis will react to this? Especially he Lorance case?"

It's possible the "this" confused you, though it was in reference to an article about Trump PARDONING people accused of war crimes--a question about law and the effect of its overturning on.

Neither the article nor the discussion to that point nor my post to you concerned "methods" of killing.

I made the question more specific in my second post.

"This" would be the pardon of US soldiers accused of war crimes; the question about how Afghans view the rule of law overturned by fiat, much as a tribal ruler might do had he a chance to "unconvict" members of his own tribe for killing members of another.

I added further points I thought might complicate the Afghani perspective--like the fact that a "terrorist" might be a relative, and that careless definition could result in the death of innocent people. Further, if people convicted by our own laws are set free by fiat, is it possible Aghans, like Americans, might see that as a LOOSENING of ROE, of fire control?

To which your response was still: "they care a whole lot less about how we kill them than we do." 

So they don't care how we control our own soldiers in their land?

The reason I asked YOU the question, and not Dino or Hollo, was because I believed you had spent time with Afghans in the line of fire, and so was drawing upon your hoped for expertise/experience. You are satisfied you have answered my question. And the repetition suggests that refining/clarifying the question will not get a different, more appropriate answer.  So lets leave it at that.

You asked a question and it was answered. Quit trying to cling to the ambiguous "this" to prove your question was unanswered. You asked what they react to "this" referencing 3 cases in which Terrorists were killed, by means outside our ROE and I told you: They care a whole lot less (read no reaction) than we do. I'm sure the Afghani are happy that we hold our servicemen accountable (given that they even understand the concept). But they are much happier that another bomb making terrorist has been eliminated (I'm 100% sure they understand that concept).