Very good points all. This case makes me wonder about the stability, or "manipulability," of the majority of America's young men in general.
You may have seen other threads on this incident where someone posted some of the Usenet posts this Guardsman made. He referred to his "Arabic History" class in college and the like. Given the systematically left-wing (or at least nihilist) direction of America's educational system, which this kid is a product of, I wonder how many more of these incidents we'll be hearing about in the future.
Which is precisely what the left wants.