Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident
by scotty79 on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:55AM
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No good deed goes unpunished.
How unfashionable by today's standards of shooting a guy in rags from IR vision enabled, high calibre helicopter gun because he has old rifle and some ammo so might pose a problem to somebody at some point in the future.
Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident
by lostlogin on Sunday June 05, 2016 @05:17AM
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At least your scenario has a guy with a gun in his sights. "We don't do body counts" type attitudes seem to reign supreme.
Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident
by golergka on Sunday June 05, 2016 @03:50PM
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Pose a problem — as in killing your comrades in arms? Because many "old rifles" are quite capable of that, despite the age.
> No good deed goes unpunished.
Good is good. Evil is evil. The only way for there to be more good is to do more good. If you do good and others do evil, you have still done good. If you do not do good and others do evil, there will be more evil than good. If you do good and others do not do evil, there will be only good done.
As a German in WWII, Stigler was a modern Samaritan- spit on for their acts, Nazis acts were and are despicable- just like the Samaritans were to the Jews 2000 years ago.
Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident
by StavrosK on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:40AM
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Wouldn't war be so much better if you could rely on the spared enemy effectively "retiring"? That way you could safely spare people's lives, and it would be very sportsmanlike.
Re:Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler Incident
by elcapitan on Sunday June 05, 2016 @04:51AM
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I guess in today's kind of warfare you would have to send them a letter that they have been spared from a strike.
That used to be a thing:
"The United States does not authorize any Military Service member to sign or enter into any such parole agreement."
Is there any reason for that?
Traditionally the reason for not allowing enemies to escape is that they will regroup and fight you again (accepting surrender, or allowing parachutists to land & become POWs, is a different matter). In this case, the escaped crew was able to return to bomb German civilians.