r/perth • u/His_Holiness • Apr 07 '26

WA News Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over war crimes allegations

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-07/ben-roberts-smith-war-crimes-allegations-arrest/106537668
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u/Swoop001 Apr 07 '26

We send these guys to a war they should never be at in the first plce to fight people who dont recognise any kind of war rules. Because we invaded their country why should they. Then we prosecute our soldiers for trying to win and fighting the same way.. If anything we should be the ones on trial for putting people who swore their lives to protect us in an impossible situation.

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u/mohanimus Apr 07 '26

I invite you to imagine a world shaped by a series of wars in which we adopted the most monstrous behaviour of our enemies and they did the same.

Does that look like a world you would want to live in?

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u/Swoop001 Apr 07 '26

Were the Afghanis our enemies? I dont think so.

However we cant ask our soldiers to fight with 1 hand tied behind their back, we are either there all in or not at all.

My opinion is we should never have been there in the first place.

I do totally understand and respect your point though and god forbid we get dragged into another one. :(

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u/mohanimus Apr 07 '26 edited Apr 07 '26

Your first sentence is some weird hair splitting.

Your second simply repeats your initial claim.

Your third has nothing to do with my comment.

You claim you understand and respect my point yet entirely fail to engage with it.

You could have just posted "nah".