After Iraqi guerrillas planted a roadside bomb that killed two members of First Lt. Michael Behenna’s platoon, his comrades captured a suspect. Naturally enough, Behenna shot him after interrogation. What was the alternative—to hand him over to Iraqi prosecution so that he would be free soon?
When Israeli army was not yet demoralized by judicial witch-hunts and political correctness, Jewish soldiers shot plenty of Egyptian, Syrian, and Palestinian POWs; it’s both just and convenient.
Against the background of hundreds of thousands dead in the Iraq war, a single insurgent POW should be of little concern. Did he stop being an insurgent after arrest? But the American court convicted Behenna of murder.
Michael Behenna was simply unlucky with the Americans who suddenly remembered about human rights, democracy and other stuff. Michael Behenna is another casualty in the dirty warfare.
Americans are the worst Israeli enemies. And hypocritic they are too.