Ben Roberts-Smith

This is not going to end well for him.

War is the most destructive and pitiless of all human activities. And yet the experience of war has a profound and strangely compelling effect on those who fight. Combat kills, maims, and terrifies, but it can also reveal the power of brotherhood and a selfless sense of purpose. It’s an experience that changes soldiers, and those changes last a lifetime.

Most who join the military and go to war are young , of tender years —and many have never been away from home. They have little experience of the world, let alone war, death, and killing. For them, and for all soldiers, combat is a complex mix of emotions that define the experience of war and shape the experience of coming home.

More recent the added horrors of no front line and difficulties identifying which of those you are among are the actual enemy.   Crazed , emotionally Manic and borderline psychotic

from the pressures at hand.      Soldiers really are meant to be killing machines in the expected circumstances .

Don't judge anyone for doing what they are in fact trained to do , expected to do and decorated for doing it well.

I think it is apalling to see comments That are not in total support for men like Ben Roberts Smith , before all circumstances are heard .

   Shame on you.

Spot on AA..     Australia is still cleaning up areas That were part of our chemical Readiness to meet an invasion in ww2.
I believe a site north, near Townsvile was the most recent attended.

( Australia conducted extensive chemical weapons research during WW2 as part of ... Bulk mustard gas and phosgene was supplied by Britain in 1941 (possibly also ... Other CW storage locations were at Hume Camp, near Albury, Victoria, and a site ... and drums of mustard gas were found in the jungle as recently as 1990 )

Do people think it is only the enemy who execute prisoners , civilians etc.

These Middle East conflicts have been emotionally destructive to our Soldiers as the nerves were tested 24/7 for the reason there were regular unexpected losses at the hands of the very people they were training .

IN HIS DEFENCE, he tells us that his parents gave him a fine upbringing and taught him about values.

I don’t think anyone disputes that war can have a devastating impact to the mind in a lot of cases but that doesn’t give someone carte blanche to do whatever they want without consequences. You don’t get a free ride because you served in the military. The allegations against him are serious and the fact that channel 9 are using a truth defence would suggest some at least are true. 

Maybe Benny wasn't breast fed as a baby.

Bashing? Is that what they call multiple murders now?

The 21 witnesses testifying against him were.

I see his legal team have dropped a huge bundle of documents to the defence, just 2 days before cross examination.

There’s something to that Bob.

Has Ben got any friends in the SAS who are backing his side of the story? 21 sounds like a lot of enemies, on your own side, to me.

Tlazolteotl wrote: Has Ben got any friends in the SAS who are backing his side of the story? 21 sounds like a lot of enemies, on your own side, to me.

Opposing war crimes is not a left/right thing oneone...or at least it shouldn't be.

oneonesit wrote: Well I'd suggest this thread already shows it is