Marine breaks Geneva convention

I can’t believe this news story, parts of it read like a sick comedy sketch: Marine guilty of Murder. There is a definite injustice here, and while I agree that one Marine’s heinous actions should tarnish the reputation of Marines in general, I do not believe that this Marine’s sentence should be lenient as some people are suggesting. In addition the Marines who witnessed this should also have been punished for not reporting the crime.

Marine A as he has become known basically shot a captive this was caught on video with the helmet camera of marine B who witnessed. Marine C was heard discussing the possibility of murdering the captive with marine A. Soldiers should have the emotional and mental capacity to operate and do their job on the field of battle, or in a humanitarian capacity. Having the training to do this and perform with integrity in such a role is what distinguishes a soldier from a gangland thug or vigilante. How these soldiers managed to lose the plot so drastically is alarming and embarrassing for the British military effort in Afghanistan.

It seems however that it isn’t only the soldiers who have lost the plot, because even though we constantly hear about how abhorrent it is when other country’s soldiers break the Geneva Convention, it seems like some people within the military especially want to mitigate such acts when our own troops are at fault. This kind of double standard adds further disgrace to the initial act of murder and that the witnesses to the murder remain unpunished. This just starts to make Britain look hypocritical.