If some military personnel--whether by their own barbarism or by direction from above--have committed atrocities, they are deserving of the most severe criticism.

Indeed they are, DaveO. Trouble is, the FBI reported this and nothing happened. Now the army as a whole, down to the last man, may not be complicit in this. But the fact that the FBI reported it and not a damn thing happened says quite plainly that the whole of the upper echelons of the army tacitly approved of what was going on. That's worth commenting on, don't you think?

Graham.