Making excuses for the leakers of classified information, for those who use illegal photographs to blackmail their own Commander in Chief, who are derelict in their own duties, who engineer complete breakdowns in discipline, as well as violate UCMJ, U.S. civilian law, and the Geneva Conventions...are *NOT* ways to better win wars.
I wonder. If, instead of throwing the book at Graner, the President and Secretary of Defense had said "Hey terrorists, we're going to catch you and when we do, the things you saw in those photos will happen to you. If your one of the lucky ones." Would jihadi monkeys be streaming into Iraq like ants? Or would they be heading in the other direction?