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Originally Posted by Dante
I believe anyone tasked with protecting this countries security should be able to do so without fear of reprisal should a mistake be made.
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Or to put it another way, "This job is so essential that they should be free to mess it up" It's logic, jim, but not as we know it.
But I think you're possibly missing the point, it doesn't have to be about punishment. We've got this huge chain of ****-ups, deceit and incompetence, even if you don't want to put a head on a stick that's got to be fixed.
You can't say it too often, if Menezes had been a suicide bomber, he would have succeeded. He was killed after having several perfect opportunities to blow up lots of people, so the failure here isn't just that an innocent man was killed for really no reason whatsoever, but also that a police supervision effort on a potential bomber completely failed to stop a man that might have been a bomber. You think that's a situation that should be allowed to continue, either way?
You've got to get people who'll hide the facts from their chain of command, or who'll lead a completely flawed operation so dangerously, out of the system before they do it again, and it doesn't have to be about revenge, it's just how you get the job done.