Many think Bales case reflects a military pushed to the limit

[unhappycamper]

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/03/28/143390/many-think-bales-case-reflects.html



In this Aug. 23, 2011, Defense Video & Imagery Distribution System photo, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales participates in an exercise at Fort Irwin, Calif.


Many think Bales case reflects a military pushed to the limit
Scott Canon and Dawn Bormann | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Wednesday, March 28, 2012

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — American soldiers in Afghanistan aren't supposed to drink booze. They're not supposed to stray "outside the wire" of their fortifications on their own.

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A country numb to the tragic frequency of suicide among combat veterans and climbing divorce rates among military families now must take notice of atrocity.

"One country can't keep an occupying force in another country for 10 years and not expect for things now and again to go wrong," said Cindy Williams, a defense analyst and personnel specialist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Run enough troops through enough bloody combat tours, said Williams, and "you can't expect otherwise. That's the problem."

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1. Du rec. Nt

[southernyankeebelle]

2. No amount of excuses help this soldier. He committed murder simple and plan. I fault the military

for sending him into battle again knowing he was having problems. Nothing changes the facts he killed people while they were sleeping in their own home. Those are the facts and now he will be before a jury.

[Hestia]

3. Democracy Now! had an interesting interview with a guy who stated that there have been these

types of atrocities before when a malarial injection is mixed with traumatic head injury. The other cases were buried. Very interesting segment. Bales had the injection 2 days before he went murderous. Just saying...

[southernyankeebelle]

4. I dunno know about the shots. It is so sad to see these kind of cases. I mean truly this is

downright murder. How can anything like this be justified. I just don't know. We need to get the hell out of there. The mission was completed when they killed OBL.