blevkog

Sick and sickening. Oh, my stomach...

A crime.

Well, it looks like it actually is going to be treated like a crime. For a change.

I wonder if it's a coincidence that the Army has talked about lowering the I.Q. requirements for the recruits?

Flash, if you're asking whether the intelligence of the Marines involved is part of the issue, I'd say probably no. I have a feeling that if you take just about anyone and scare the shit out of them, deny them decent sleep, arm them, drop them in the middle of a citizenry that by and large hates, and at best distrusts them, and then tell them that "the enemy" can be anywhere, you'd get the same results with a group of Nobel prize winners as you would with the average Joe on the street.

This is just an ugly, ugly situation all around; and ugly things are going to happen by design or by accident.