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| LaptopAcidXperience wrote: "The SAS is being ordered to do something it knows is morally wrong." Robin Horsfall can f u c k off, they are trained assassins, it's not the like good old days where all they had to do was kill Catholics, Argentinians and the odd Muslim. I can't see it bothering many SAS troopers anyway, they're just higher paid bullet stoppers, not that I would ever say that to an SAS trooper, being how they're all psychopathic killers. | |
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With all due respect, you're talking total twaddle. The SAS are not 'assassins' nor are they 'psychopathic killers'. If they were the former we'd have far too many of them to use and if they were the latter they simply wouldn't be able to do their job properly. They are soldiers, which is an entirely different kettle of fish. Soldiers kill people, that's what they are trained to do, and if you find that distasteful or intolerable that's your perogative but that doesn't mean they meet the definition of either of the groups you have placed them in.
I've actually met a couple of people who were clinically diagnosed as being psychopathic. I've also met soldiers. If you had met both, you'd soon be aware of the difference and which you'd want to stay the hell away from, believe me.
The SAS troopers who are training the Libyans (if any) aren't going to refuse to carry out their orders. That's not something soldiers do under that kind of circumstance. nobody is being killed, nor are they being required to kill anybody. But we have no way of knowing if they like doing it, i.e. if they agree with the political reasons. Soldiers simply aren't allowed by law to make those sort of judgements unless under extreme duress.
Your anger is misplaced. If the SAS are training Libyan special forces, the person you should be angry with is the politician or civil servant who ordered them to do so, not the soldier who is simply carrying out orders he is legally required to do.
Jon
