| vlad321 said: I wouldn't have shot him so soon, let him die from bleeding for what he did. However this goes against your point completely. At least the Russians knew they were people committing horrible acts, while some of the war prisoners in Guantanamo were there by accident. At least by you providing just that. |
Shooting him was an act of compassion. I guess it tells something about yourself to let him suffer after the Russian realized he could not interogate him anymore.
I doubt anyone was in Guantanamo by accident. I'm sure there were people lower on the "hate America and willing to die" scale then others. But you don't accidently and innocently end up in Gitmo. Unless you were the Pizza guy that just happened to be delivering to Al-Qaeda that night.
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
