The guy was obviously nuts.
Why paint The US Military?
I'LL TELL YOU WHY....:
You are probably too young to remember that after Nam (and for AT LEAST, the following 10 years) this was SOP for the Far Left, Hate-America/Military, Lame Stream Media) in that in EVERY instance where they could tie a Nam Vet to a crime, it was reported as......"Vietnam Vet charged with rape;" "Vietnam Vet robs bank;" Vietnam Vet held on suspicion of dealing drugs," etc., etc., etc.
It was endemic and drove some of us Nam Vets nuts (of course thanks to that F'n, Backstabbing, Bottom-Feeding, Scumbag, John Kerry, we had ALL been labeled as not only "nuts" but "baby-killing, drugged-out, rapist, pillagers, psychos," and worse) and caused many of us to become so ashamed that we removed any mention of our service in Nam from our resumes and did not tell anyone we did not know about having served there.
Thus, I expect to see much more of this now and in the foreseeable future as the Left and anti-war Loons use any excuse to show how Iraq and Af-Gan has turned our returning vets into some sore of wacked-out, animals.
I remember like it was yesterday. I’ve seen reports how a large portion of returning vets went back to school on their GI bills and went on to contribute a great deal to society. Their only complaint was the percentage of college teachers and professors that were draft dodgers and anti-American. Some things never change.
They've been at it a long time. As a kid, I remember there was much media hand-wringing over all those WWII servicemen "who were used to killing" returning home. They were predicting a wave of murder. Until the Korean War, ANY sort of violence usually headlined "EX-ARMY/NAVY/MARINE KILLS . . .".
Then the meme changed with Eisenhower. Then they covered their predictive errors by getting snarky. From then on, all you read was how "boring" the 1950s were. Boring indeed. All those vets wanted to do is make up for the years taken from them - they had had enough violence to last them the rest of their lives.