Thursday, October 29, 2009

The other problem with the Omar Khadr situation

Why is Omar Khadr in prison in the first place? Because he allegedly threw a grenade that mortally wounded a US soldier.

I know nothing of the legalities and technicalities of the situation, but the fact that a person can be arrested for allegedly attacking invading/occupying soldiers who are attacking them offends my sense of fair play.

It would be like going into a paintball game with a fully loaded paintball gun and shooting paintballs at people, and then pressing assault charges when they shoot paintballs at you. It would be like starting a game of dodgeball on the playground, and then running tattling to teacher "Waaaah! She threw a ball at me!"

If you're going to send soldiers into other countries and have them go barging into buildings trying to capture people, you have to assume they're going to get shot at or have grenades thrown at them or whatever. If you don't want your soldiers to get shot at, don't go around making war zones.

2 comments:

laura k said...

Completely simple and logical. If only the US would cop to itself as an invading/occupying force.

You know, supposedly the US invaded Afghanistan in self-defense! ROFL, etc.

impudent strumpet said...

It's almost an insult to the US soldiers' honour/manhood/dignity that their government feels the need to charge people for fighting back against them. A big manly tough US soldier would be able to handle the fact that when they go barging into a building, the people inside fight back.