these lines. And the ones who would have had to initiate that request were most likely at DOD.
It's not unreasonable for the government to want to know who -- after signing a non-disclosure agreement -- disclosed anyway. I mean, really--they're ORDERS, not suggestions.
I don't necessarily agree that "Hastings' piece REVEALED..." anything. It made strong suggestions based on physical evidence, but physical evidence isn't the only kind of evidence.
What was going on in that servicemember's mind is the missing piece of the puzzle. And I'm not talking about his naive writings, his fantasy novellas where he's the adventurous hero, or his GBCW note, either. I'm talking about what was happening in that chemical-hormone soup that his brain was sitting in, that would cause a person to completely abandon anything approaching common sense and actually think he could shed his body armor and weapon and go prancing off across field and rocky wasteland and mountain, extremely rough terrain, and be greeted in a Happy-Happy-Glad-Glad way by the locals. "Oh, heyyy, Bowe, nice to meet you, come on in for some rice and goat, and let's talk about cultural stuff, whaddaya say, buddy?" I mean, really--what was that damned fool thinking?
In sum, that boy wasn't thinking--and he sure as hell wasn't thinking right.
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