caught again

As a boy in the early 70s while the war still raged in Vietnam one of my adult cousins frequently used the cliche' "love it or leave it" whenever the nightly news showed the frequent protests against the war by the liberal young people across the country. I never questioned my cousin's opinion. During this time my step-dad had a good friend who, like himself, was a Vietnam vet. His friend was named Richard. Richard was a really nice guy but there seemed as if there was something unseen that was burdening him. Down the line I discovered that indeed Richard did have something burdening him. From being witness to the carnage of war, experiencing the loss of many friends, Richard detached himself from sanity at some point and skinned alive a captured Viet Cong over a span a several days. That shocked the hell out of me. But what shocked me even more was that although he was caught by our military he was not dishonorably discharged.
A great uncle of mine once told the family with a sense of pride and pleasure about how during WWII in which he served as a submariner, he and his shipmates surfaced because they had been ordered to retrieve survivors of a Japanese ship they'd sank. Although there were many survivors none were rescued an instead were burnt alive by the oil polluted water they were floating in. My great uncle saw this as normal because they (the Japanese survivors) were the enemy. Now fast forward to the next century. We've made leaps and bounds in the science of killing, especially becoming proficient in making homicide anonymous by means of timed devices, long distance weapons, and booby traps. The current hot item killing machine is our drones. No wonder some of the more graphic video games weren't banned-they were a indoctrination to the modern warfare that uses remote controlled weapons like drones.
Now with all these advances in killing, we still cannot get around one thing-human error. But the recent video evidence of a massacre by our troops on civilians ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rXPrfnU3G0&feature=player_embedded ) cannot be covered with "error" in any shape, form, or fashion. This is simply murder. Mass murder with a conspiracy involving many, from those in the attack copters to those higher up on the pole who authorized cover-up maneuvers and official bullshit stories. All involved should face a firing squad or left to the families of the victims to do as they will. To my cousin my opinion would would receive his famous "love it or leave it" line. But I do love America, my country. I always have. I grew up thinking that we (America ) were always the good guys. Once it seemed as if other countries opinion of America didn't matter as long as we Americans believed in our country. But it is past time now that we need to give a fuck about what other countries feel about us. Now we're a country in debt and in need of help. We've become somewhat of a punk-ass bully has-been to most of the world.
We include ourselves in worthless conversations of world power and such to enforce the official line (uh-oh!) of us being a super power.
We've become not just a punk-ass, has-been, but a shit disturber as well. We constantly meddle in the affairs of countries that aren't that fond of us anyway, and we challenge others to a fight. We even start shit with China, the country that we owe way too much to. If we went to war with China how far could we go without the supplies we need that are of course, made in China? It must really hurt to be outdone by communists in the world of capitalism. Come on, clean up your act America.