[Ispy4u]

And had you "taken it to them" what would you have accomplished. If you are speaking of experience in Viet Nam, no action soldiers took there could change the outcome, that war was a political failure.

I imagine what you wish is merely an emotional response. It completely overlooks the implications those actions could have to generations of soldiers following you. Atrocities steel the resolve of our enemies, give them an excuse to lay before the world stage for their atrocities, and make it nearly impossible for us to prosecute war criminals if we advocate their tactics (which is what LTC West used).

[Steely Glint]

"And had you "taken it to them" what would you have accomplished."

Vengeance.