Captain Roger Hill and his first sergeant, Tommy Scott, are the two latest victims of the military justice system. They are charged with war crimes, dereliction of duty, and more after an incident where the government says Afghan detainees were abused. Let’s look at the government’s version of “abuse”:
Members of his unit allegedly slapped Afghan detainees, and Hill himself is said to have fired his pistol into the ground near blindfolded Afghans to frighten them.
Even the embedded journalist writing the story says it is “hard…to condemn” the two soldiers for doing their jobs.
The evidence against these detainees was “incontrovertible,” say several intelligence officers. They were definitely terrorists. Hill and Scott did what they had to do in order to get information that would allow their men to return home to their families in one piece. But of course, our nation doesn’t allow the troops to do that anymore. Our government would rather that we look good to the global community, that we keep our testicular fortitude safe where we can’t use it, in a glass case at the U.N. Headquarters.
They weren’t cutting the terrorists’ genitals off and stuffing them in their mouths. They weren’t burning them with cigarettes and carving pieces of flesh off. They certainly weren’t raping them over and over, they didn’t behead them, set them on fire, or hang them from meathooks in public places. Let’s see…who does that? Oh, yes. The terrorists they were questioning. That’s right.
For those pseudo-intellectuals who will pontificate about how we’re “taking the high road,” how we have to “act better than the enemy,” I offer this cold, hard fact. There is no “high road” in war, only a winner and a loser–only a road of alive troops, and dead ones. The Special Forces, Rangers, Navy SEALs, and other special warfare organizations have long known and operated under the basic fact that if you find yourself in a “fair” fight, you have already lost. The public and the media think we are playing tiddlywinks in the Middle East, instead of fighting a bloody, gut-wrenching war resulting in death after death of our troops because of American leadership–or lack thereof. Hill and Scott are simply two more pieces of wood to fuel the fire that is the new–and nutless–America.
Something’s horribly wrong here. ER will keep you posted on this case as it moves forward.
