Military off base for murders. But I suspect has already been shipped back to the US and I don't know about extradition rights. The Hague might be a better place to try him, In Afghanistan he would certainly be sentenced to death.
Why was he allowed to be deployed again? Who is responsible?

16 civilians. Maybe kill the man who deployed you first??

Sounds like a hate crime to me.

There is no way whether there are mitigating circumstances or not that this guy escapes his FIRST appearance before an Afghani court with his life, if he even GETS to the courtroom.

If Afghani military trainees with "friendly" uniforms can pull their guns and kill their American counterparts, then an Afghani court officer is most assuredly going to kill Bales and become a national (and dare I say Muslim) hero.

The servicemen and women in Afghanistan would be busy packing things they needed to bring, and burning those things that could be used as weapons if left behind.

The Afghanis would wake up tomorrow morning wondering where the Americans had gone...

We are becoming more regressive every day. Before long women won't be able to vote, owning slaves will be just fine.

We're fucked actually!

negotiate a treaty - think it called something 'statue of forces' agreement - which defines that in the case of U.S. soldiers, that the U.S. government/military retains control over the soldier in the event of a criminal act. What sometimes happens, based on the type of incident - is that the soldier is put on trial by the military, charged, discharged - and sometimes turned over to the host country.

In this case - in theory, the soldier was in uniform while committing the acts... so, the military probably wants to retain control over this situation.

It is ugly, regardless of how it plays out...