Lone Survivor

There should be a sort-of-read listing (along with a did not finish)

Apparently the audiobook I found was heavily abridged and I've heard terrible things about the unabridged version so I'll have to read it for real sometime later. Perhaps it will alter my perspective of the book.

The only thing I don't quite understand, is the way the inital trigger that threw everything to hell. They “captured” these goat people who obviously hated americans and were likely sympathetic to the enemy. The choices were framed as either kill them and be murderers or let them got and risk the enemy being alerted to their position sooner rather than later. Although inconvenient due to the goats that would undoubtedly be visible on their suicide mountain top, why couldnt they just have tied them up, immobilized and semi neutralized the threat to buy themselves some time to get to a better position. Ok it's no guarantee things wouldn't have gone to hell anyway but in an impossible situation wouldn't that have given them a better chance?
Obviously hindsight is different than being in such a situation but still. I find it strange that these highly trained and highly educated individuals would not have considered other options, even in the incredibly short amount of time they would have to make those decisions... In my mind its clear when you're stuck between two unacceptable options that there is always another way, even if it only staves off all hell breaking loose for a short time...
Still, an incredible story.