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Originally Posted by Villages PL
How would the story have to be different in order for you to accept that he wasn't in control of what he did?
The only part that doesn't seem to fit my theory is the part about him surrendering. But it could be that by the time he walked back, he began to snap out of it.
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It doesn't matter what his emotional state was. Most people who commit murder do so under some sort of stress.
Now it turns out the "brain injury" story was a bit bogus and this soldier had "
been drinking" and suffering "from the stress related to his fourth combat tour and tensions with his wife about the deployments, a senior American official said Thursday", as reported in the NY Times.
It's a sad story, but a soldier in this theater cannot be excused from actions like this because that would send an "anything goes" message to the thousands of soldiers with similar situations, in my opinion.