Alleged Rape and Killings by American soldiers.

See story at New York Times

My comment is the same I made a month ago with regard to the Haditha incident:

"The greater lesson is that war always leads to such horrors. 'Accidental' and 'collateral' horrors happen, and then there will be those that are intentional, although likely motivated by panic or psychosis. It does not reflect on all soldiers, but it does reflect on the nature of war."

I do not remotely suggest in this case, however, suggest that the incident might have anything directly to do with policy, although rape as a method of terrorism has been suggested in other wars involving other countries. But I do suggest that we need to make war obsolete. The intentions of soldiers and their willingness to sacrifice their lives may be noble, but the intentions of governments rarely are, and the results almost never are. The most likely exception, the position of the Allies in WWII, may have been noble and necessary, but we have lost site of the goal of then moving past the necessity of further wars and the sacrifice of human lives, and even crossed over the line into fighting optional wars, with the concomitant horrors all wars, noble and necessary or not, precipitate. Still worse, we seem to be addicted to war, and use our just war theories and our defense of the honor of soldiers as an excuse for our addiction. Young people on every side believe they are signing up for a noble cause; can they possibly all be right?