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The media has created false expectations of a clean and bloodless war.
When that does not happen, people reach for their lawyers and they want blood. Heads must roll to satisfy them.
This is a tragedy that should not have occurred and the Rangers should have told the truth from the beginning. At the same time, it is war and shit happens. All we can do is try to see that it happens as infrequently as possible.
I didn't see a lot of reports about it, but at one point, the US Air Force had killed more SF than the Taliban. I didn't see too many people relieved over that.
We do the best we can with what we have. The point about WW II vets is well taken. Fratricide has always happened, and will always happen. We should keep trying to reduce it and to keep it from happening again, but it will.
The losses should never be covered up or lied about. Tell the truth, and let the consequences follow.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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