Without an active conscience, one with the ability to transcend the doings of our team, we descend into the pit, the pit where life is at once brutish and short, and without moral meaning, a life wasted. The sad thing is that whenever something like this happens, it dishonors all those in the military who are decent and honorable folks. That is the most disgusting aspect of it all. Throw the book at them, if the did it, and throw it hard, without hesitation, and for all those who covered it up, cashier them and put them before a courts martial too.
There are too many good Marines who risk death to themselves rather than fire on a civilian to cover-up for thuggish behavior that may have resulted in the deaths of 24 unarmed people.
As news reports trickle out, it appears there may have been three or four ringleaders, and seven or eight bystanders who did nothing to stop a massacre.
Nicely said.