Quote Originally Posted by Skip View Post
The days of gentleman officers bringing troops to bear against one another, obeying a set rules of engagement, with respect for POWs is over. 4GW will be the future and there is growing evidence that even more civilized nations will use 4GW forces as proxies. You may have noticed the US is supporting some fairly unsavory characters in Syria for this very reason.

Female POWs won't just be taken hostage and quietly abused/executed. It will be on YouTube/Liveleak for all to see and used as propaganda. If you haven't seen the ISIS vids, then I would suggest you do so. Not to turn your stomach but to understand how the enemy has changed.

While Washington/media/Liberals/Feminists are "progressive" and think they can tolerate this, the rest of the country is not. The idea of someone's daughter, mother, wife being graphically tortured to death will change psychology.




I want to be clear... How she became a POW is irrelevant (to me) and not why I brought her up. I mean her no disrespect for how it may/may not have happened. The intense international focus on a single POW, precisely because she was female, is why I brought her up.

Can you name one other POW from the same timeframe? I can't without hitting Google. The people in her convey who died are largely forgotten. If she had died, she would have been forgotten as well (sad, but true). The recovery of Pvt. Lynch became an important mission for the reasons I stated above.

Now put that on the team/plt/company level. Think about how that hits the news cycle stateside. That was my point and I know we agree on the other points you've brought up.

I just wanted to call out that I wasn't bashing or accusing Jessica Lynch of anything or blaming her.
Thanks for the clarification!

I need to think some more. You bring up some very good points.