Its not just the latest hoohaw that is making a bad name of US service people, its a history of arrogant behavior over a period of 50 years.

Need I list all the screwups?

Vietnam - why did not the people want to be 'freed' by the USA?

Next complete misunderstanding Iran. Despite the good looking women there who run about without viels, these people are still Moslem and US service men eager to practice liberty according to another law simply insulted and raped them. In Moslem countries if you must have more than one wife you have to take care of the children for the rest of your life.

Then we had a series of misunderstandings in Japan, Korea and the rest -- gee even in England, women asked the USA to go home, please.

The USA that helped liberate Europe is not the USA of today, and to pretend otherwise is simply dangerous.

It's not OC that Private England was stooged into doing what she did, rather it is the fact that she knew no better, that we must address and fix. I could have truely written that comment 30 years ago and it would have been no less true.

We coral people into Trailer Parks and Projects where low and scum is the only way of life. We send the children to school where the idea of discipline is decided by lawcourts, where kids think it cool to murder teachers, where there is no moral training at all, and where self aggrandising and tax sucking is the rule. How then can we expect anything but crap from such recruits when we give them a gun and prisioners to play with?

Sending these people into strickly enforced religious society is like giving nukes to a bunch of apes. They haven't a clue about right and wrong in Moslem society. By Moslems they are percieved as uncooth ignorant animals with guns OC. The Iraqi idea of freedom has absolutely nothing in common with Mr Rumsfeldt's so how on earth could Private England have even a clue?

Our freedom is their hell.