Originally Posted by
mundame
"There were 2,947 total reports of alleged sexual assault cases involving members of the armed forces," the report said.
Whether reporting is better or not, that is 2,947 sexual assaults too many.
I am hoping a big public issue after the war (at least) will be that our troops are wildly out of control. The atrocities --- Abu Ghraib, the many others such as Haditha, all the really sad misbehaviors detailed in the book Fiasco such as troops going to the prisoner pens and beating them up just for fun, for recreation. Troops shooting poor people's cows, their dogs, kicking in the doors, terrifying people needlessly.
Our troops are direly out of control and the rapes show that also. I think it's because so many criminals are being let in because sensible people won't sign up --- the "morals waivers." That's awful: don't let in those Stephen Green types who organize whole patrols to rape and kill little girls!!!!
If we've got garbage, we should keep it here, not put it in the U.S. Army and send it to foreign lands. My fear is that we are acquiring the reputation the German huns had in WWI and WWII. And you KNOW what happened to them: the whole world combined and ganged up to defeat them like rabid dogs.
I suggest the military sorely needs to get much better control of its troops.