That Teribus chose the military is just one more example of how prone the armed services are to attracting "the wrong sort" - ie the sort who lack the brainpower to do anything else and like hurting people.

The link provided by Paul Burke recounted British atrocities carried out within a year of the UK and its WW2 Allies executing among others a decent soldier, General Jodl, following a travesty of a trial at Nuremberg. More proof, were it needed, that victors' justice is at best rank hypocrisy, and that war-crime courts and tribunals invariably stand on shaky ethical foundations. (The more so when the strongest nation on earth places itself above them.) As Solzhenitsyn said (possibly quoting someone else?) "the line between good and evil passes through every man's heart."