British Special Forces bring home NYT reporter

[antikristuseke]

Special forces people generally know what they sign up for. He lost his life in the line of duty. That being said, The journalist did act like a proper arsehead and personaly would not concidered the recources spent worth it to save him.

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Plus two civilians died. And for some reason the body of Munadi, the Afghani journalist, was left behind. Bit strange.

I wouldnt call leaving a corpes in a gunfight strange, but that must just be my weird standards where a dead body is not really worth risking anyones neck for.

Originally Posted by antikristuseke

I wouldnt call leaving a corpes in a gunfight strange, but that must just be my weird standards where a dead body is not really worth risking anyones neck for.

Well they did retrieve the body of the dead soldier. I guess different rules apply to Afghani journalists.

[antikristuseke]

From what I could tell from the article, the soldier in question was qounded, but died of his wounds on the plane. But yes, even if he had died on the spot an afghani journalist is not a brother in arms in the same way a soldier is to a fellow soldier.

[mr chris]

Lets face it. The guys on the ground are not going to stay around looking for a Afghan jurno. When the prime target of the Op is accounted for and they are in a major fire-fight and they already have a man down. The comes a time when you have out stayed your welcome and it is time to get out of dodge.

Originally Posted by mr chris

Lets face it. The guys on the ground are not going to stay around looking for a Afghan jurno. When the prime target of the Op is accounted for and they are in a major fire-fight and they already have a man down. The comes a time when you have out stayed your welcome and it is time to get out of dodge.

Oh yea, I think that about sums up the attitude of US & UK to this whole war.

[mr chris]

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Oh yea, I think that about sums up the attitude of US & UK to this whole war.

[danlisa]

Originally Posted by mr chris

Lets face it. The guys on the ground are not going to stay around looking for a Afghan jurno. When the prime target of the Op is accounted for and they are in a major fire-fight and they already have a man down. The comes a time when you have out stayed your welcome and it is time to get out of dodge.

Originally Posted by OneToughHerring

Oh yea, I think that about sums up the attitude of US & UK to this whole war.

Attitude has nothing to do with it.

It's training and orders. You do your job and get out. End of.

Putting on my logical head for a moment. Value wise, an injured and highly trained member of the forces is more valuable than a corpse.

They did the correct thing.

Originally Posted by danlisa

Attitude has nothing to do with it.

It's training and orders. You do your job and get out. End of.

Putting on my logical head for a moment. Value wise, an injured and highly trained member of the forces is more valuable than a corpse.

They did the correct thing.

Somebody gives them the orders. It's not like a robot gives the orders that the brainwashed soldiers are then just blindly forced to obey.

I think them leaving the Afghan journalists body (how exactly did they know he was dead and not just wounded as well?) there is a good metafore of the whole war. Afghan casualties mean nothing to the coalition.