"... an atrocious bit of commentary - you want to promote this video as if it communicates something profound about the nature of war, or maybe just current wars, you're not clear about that - but what is clear is that you apparently know nothing at all about the practice or history of war. You blanch at the demeanor of the crew? Are you ignorant? There's nothing they do or say that is out of keeping with the average soldier's experience of combat - you find that disturbing, fine - but had you rode along with a bomber crew aboard a Lancaster or B-17 over Dresden etc you would have heard the same, if not much worse - in fact you put a camera on the front lines of any war in history and you'll see things much, much more disturbing - and that goes for wars naive sentimentalists like yourself like to think of as 'the good wars'. You don't have the stomach for such ugliness fine, but you then need to pursue that emotion to its logical conclusion and become a pacifist, reject war and violence entirely - certainly don't be giving your precious Obama a pass when a UCAV attack he's sanctioned wipes out a few shepherds in the Hindu Kush mountains.
The Apache crew and their overseers should not be casually absolved for what was obviously a serious mistake - but what is also obvious is that the crew was flying reconnaissance and force protection for a ground insertion in a combat zone, that they believed the men on the ground were armed and therefore a possible threat to the incoming patrol and most important of all that the situation dramatically escalated after the crew saw what they believed to be an insurgent with an RPG - what I find shocking is how many left leaning commentators conveniently neglect to mention that RPG, which suggests to me Mr Walt that you like them are not engaged in some serious discussion of the nature of war here but rather peddling propaganda..."
