A War's Impossible Mission

[Meinertzhagen]

Mike,

I'm not at all suggesting that we impose a western-centric model of "justice" in Afghanistan. Whether the justice is tribal, the punishment local and the prisons national or any mix in between, there must be a better system in place that allows for some form of remediation for crimes between death by JDAM and release. In its absence, the current Afghan government imprisons without chance of justice/due process (in any sense; western or Islamic), bad men walk the mountains free and good men like CPT Hill feel forced to take matters into their own hands.

Also:

I'm still confused on how Roger Hill's actions destroyed the national security agenda for the last seven years much less disrupted any notions of the modern democratic, capitalistic nation-state system...

I'm not sure where I said that...

Note: I previously introduced myself under a different alias which was my real name in the old thread, but changed it later to preserve anonymity)