Tejek, RE: "Why was he detained for 13 days?" Gerlach asked."
I have an issue with this statement.
It conveys this Senator is out of touch with how this war has been extremely underfunded. Yahoo AP story said military people were working 18 hour days.
If an American citizen is safely locked up, that's a better place for him or her, than naively wandering around in war-raging streets with a bullseye on his back.
What would you do, if you had limited resources and you wanted to keep the guy safe, but you didn't want to reallocate your resources away from protecting your troops? I think this Congressperson is guilty of being out of touch with the resource constraints and lack of adequate funding of the war.
Think of it this way: Berg was safe when he was in jail. But only a few days after being released, he was killed. Maybe the govt's error was in letting him out. I think his family is not showing their accountability for Berg's extremely poor decision to wander around in Iraq during the middle of a war, with white-colored skin, nearly blond hair, possibly blue eyes and climbing up communication towers during the night. What on earth was he thinking?
Some common sense is in order. And some accountability for poor decision making.
In a different post, you had said the govt is guilty for his murder. I have issue with that. I think the people who are guilty for his murder, are first and foremost the people who killed him. Our govt has exasperated the situation over there thru poor handling and they are at fault for that, but I don't think that makes our govt 100% at fault for this person's murder. The people who killed him, deserve the blame first and foremost.
Regards,
Amy J |
