What? What?!
May. 31st, 2010 07:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eviltigerlilyI don't even...
I don't even know what I want to say about this except massive FAIL. Doesn't seem to cover it though. This little diplomatic incident will not blow over. I'm glad to see we're sticking to a no nonsense, everything is Their fault strategy. It's very convincing. Can a group of marines really not control a crowd without ending up killing ten of them? I don't even want to go into questions of whether they had a right to board that ship in the first place, I'm very much not an expert on international law, and really I normally try to pretend the outside world does not exist, but sometimes it's impossible.
Someone will have to answer for this. Whatever happened, the commanders that chose to send soldiers into that situation and will have to take responsibility. At best, this was a show of appalling incompetence. At worse...I don't really want to speculate on that.
I don't even know what I want to say about this except massive FAIL. Doesn't seem to cover it though. This little diplomatic incident will not blow over. I'm glad to see we're sticking to a no nonsense, everything is Their fault strategy. It's very convincing. Can a group of marines really not control a crowd without ending up killing ten of them? I don't even want to go into questions of whether they had a right to board that ship in the first place, I'm very much not an expert on international law, and really I normally try to pretend the outside world does not exist, but sometimes it's impossible.
Someone will have to answer for this. Whatever happened, the commanders that chose to send soldiers into that situation and will have to take responsibility. At best, this was a show of appalling incompetence. At worse...I don't really want to speculate on that.
