I feel sorry for our soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. From what I've read, quite a few of them came to believe that our mission there was thankless, impossible, and doomed to failure. It began as a necessary and "good" war--to root out terrorists--but then became a morass since the Afghans themselves were corrupt, really had no interest in Western-style democracy, and as time went on vacillated between supporting the Taliban and wanting the Americans to get rid of them.
I have huge respect for our soldiers and feel sorry that their lives have been put on the line for this mess.
We all agree that what Bowe did was irresponsible, immature, and wrong. I think it was a perfect storm of upbringing (isolated and too much "do your own thing"), immature idealism, and (according to the RS article) being put in a unit where morale was in the toilet, making it all the easier for him to conclude that what he was doing had no value.
thats just a load of bs.
morals and morale were not in the toilet in that unit. Just one guy. Who never should have been shipped out.
