Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
The professional soldiers killed him although he was unarmed, the Lybians didn't do that
Whilst no fan of extra-judicial killings, one would expect that extraction of that individual would have proven difficult, especially since they had lost a helicopter and the element of surprise. I feel relatively sure that it would have proven politically inconvenient to have released him on police bail.

Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Yes, well I for one would not have wanted to be a Loyalist American Officer during the Revolution facing New York's Liberty Boys.
And I lost a good friend to the tender mercies of the IRA when his cover was blown. The point being that it's not specifically a Libyan or American or British failing to inflict suffering on a captured enemy especially when that person is the perpetrator of wickedness. We're all a tortured sister from being "savages".

One can certainly hope for better behaviour, but we in the West have rather let the side down as exemplars in recent times.