Comando

It makes me sick to think that a soldier has been convicted of murder and has life imprisonment, this was a man who was in a life threatening situation, saw friends killed, body parts of his mates hanging from trees, what sort of mind would you be in??, would  you be kind and understanding to the enemy?, or would you go after them with blood in your eyes, having probably never seen the enemy and the fact that you just might die at any moment you react irrationally, there is no way you can be blamed for you actions in the middle of enemy attack, his job was to protect his men, so he shot a Taliban fighter who was in fact all but dead, that does not mean that killing is acceptable but the circumstances have to be understood and some help to him to recover, so what does the navy do why of course charge him with murder, the panel who convicted him were never told that manslaughter was a possibility just Murder, the soldier admitted that he did shoot the man so what chance had he?, to make things worse for him he was given an inadequate defence lawyer, how can this be justice, he has served the time he would have received for manslaughter so shouldn't the military get off their high horse and give this soldier at least some respect, he in the past had done more than hi share of fighting in the middle east, in times of acute stress soldiers react in often unexpected ways, when your mates are killed in front of you how do the people of this country think what might happen?, retribution comes to mind knowing what they will do to you if caught you will not react in a positive way, I believe that rage comes into the mind and this is your chance to rid you of one of your enemies so we have to understand the circumstances of this and release this man into his family to hope that he manages to return to a normal life, but how difficult will that be????