This is extremly true. Being myself, and knowing people in the armed forces as well as working with them I agree with this post. Take for example the special opperations teams opperating in the hindu kush mountain range. When your up there doing recon on movment and you see a man with a wagon full of explosives walking around, can you shoot??? No, anyone know why??? because goverment figures around the world say that, well mabie the guy just wants to walk around at night with expolsives on him. Can you shoot??? No you cant, and if you do shoot extremists will find out and the media will get wind. The media is 10 times worse then you can possibly imagine in that kind of situation. Even if it means that you are going to possibly save the lives of 15 helpless people in a marked hundreds of miles away. @joachimnor: so you are saying that even thought troops cant do anything, and people may die, they still deserve the same rights as everyone else??? think, 27 people from europe died in 9/11 that wern't even american citizans of the 334 people from other countrys besides the intended U.S. do they really deserve the same rights as other people??