Marine Atrocities

The whole country, and especially George Bush, needs to share some responsibility for the killing of civilians by marines last November. It was a terrible thing, and they must be punished. But we must consider that WE SENT THEM THERE (after we trained them to kill). Most of them are no more than kids and none of us can say with truth what we would have done if we were 20 years old and our buddies were getting blown up and shot at by an invisible enemy . It's the kind of pressure that very good people crack under. You might, too.

These men must be punished, but it would be wrong to judge on the same basis as we would if their crimes were committed in the U.S.