Navy Seals Face Court Martial for Alleged Terrorist Bloody Lip?, CBS News
General George S. Patton was reprimanded and nearly was taken out of the war for slapping two soldiers whom he thought were malingerers. The great movie '''Patton''' blends the two incidents into one.
The Seals deny that they had injured their target. They are not claiming that one of them hit Ahmed Hashim Abed and it was justified.
Patton justified his slapping of these two soldiers as a way to restore their self-confidence. One soldier last admitted that it did. It was wrong then, and today, it is inconceivable that a general would slap a soldier not showing a visible wound.
Violence in the Catholic faith, is limited to self-defense, and in the larger context, internal order (i.e. police) and external threat (i.e. military).
I can't prejudge this case, but I will be paying careful attention.
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