You know me... just stirring the pot a little...
Then allow me to join you. I like to stir the pot too you know...
And let me tell you one thing sir. You cant compare the mistakes of Al-Quaeda and other religious fanatics with these war crimes.
Read me carefully. I said "mistakes" for the hairy primitive terrorists and I said "war crimes" for these criminals in uniform.
An Al-Quaeda terrorist beheading a foreigner in his country thinks that he is doing a good thing. He is proud of it. He even makes a video and broadcast it.
If you ask him, he will tell you that it's justice. That he executed a criminal. Maybe he believes that, maybe he doesnt... But his actions have a limited legitimacy. We dont approve of their executions, but some religious extremists and even some less extremists locals recognize this kind of actions. After all, fighting an aggressor who is fighting you on your land is very legitimate.
And tell me, when the Mujahideen were killing Soviet prisoners in Afghanistan/Chechnya. Were you calling them terrorists/criminals?
While these US soldiers were hiding their actions, because they knew that what they were doing is wrong.
And the army is responsible if you want my opinion. The "few bad apples" interpretation" isnt convincing if you ask me. Since Vietnam they have a body count BS theory to measure operational success...
They send kids to war as soon as they can carry a gun. They pay huge sums of money to train them to kill, but they dont give them any education to develop a critical sense.
They accept easily people from the poor parts of the population, they accept these people who were refused by society...
They encourage them to be aggressive because it makes them better killers... Add to that all this gansta rap BS, violent movies and video games etc we shovel feed to the young generations... And you get a huge factory for dangerous minds with guns and a license to kill...
We have a huge systemic problem here...
P.S:
-- Dusty, so let me sum it up for you. Some extremist/primitive/intolerant Muslims in Afghanistan attacked people for things they were unrelated to. And you, you lost your respect for the religion of 1.5billion people because of the actions of these (relatively) few extremists?