Shooting Prisoners

I just read the unfortunate account of a Marine in Fallujah shooting a wounded Iraqi prisoner inside a mosque. (He was from the same unit that lost a man the day before from a booby-trapped dead Iraqi.) The incident was recorded by the news crew imbedded with the unit, and parts of the video were aired on CNN.

There are so many topics of discussion around this event--the ability of soldiers to turn on and off their emotions, the extent to which such incidents happen in every war, the obliviousness to the camera crew, the decision to air the footage on T.V., the conduct we expect from our warriors. I will return to this topic, but for now I simply want to open a forum to talk about it.