Culture of Violence

As James Myart put it in an interview with Sean Hannity,

"Most police officers are good, honest, hard-working men and women, there is a culture of police officers out there that represent a legalized gang violence."

there exists a living, breathing sub-culture of hate and supremacy within the armed forces. Sean proceeded to assert that Myart's claim was a national disgrace for it's use of racial politics that he inferred were aimed only to better Myart himself, and not the afflicted community. We've got the same problem in the military. There seems to be this clique in almost everyplace you can find guns legal or not, of anti-intellectual, mostly mentally disturbed, people who stain the name of good private and civil organizations. Charles Whitman, Ceasar Laurean, Lee Harvey Oswalt, Daniel Smith, Timothy McVeigh, and these dudes are just to name the more famous military guided sociopaths. It's an inevitable problem. In the same way the rapists are always going to exist as a by-product of a disturbed youth, terrible choices, and our perpetually unequal society, there will always be men and women who want to join the military or police, not to defend, but to kill in cold blood.
One of the most important things our military does is a screening for these type cases, but as always, a few will slip through and find themselves in a foriegn land, bound only by restrictions of a loosley interpreted war, ready to kill. You can see traces of graffitti in Baghdad where the Ayran Nation has marked it's territory. You can hear it at night in some barracks, where whispers like "sand-nigger", and "camel jockey" float from ear to ear. I don't want those people over there representing me. When Iraqi citizens look at our marines, they are looking at the face of our nation, if they see a bully, our occupation is going to be a lot harder.
But the military has to be held responsible for the effects of it's recruitment techniques, let's be honest, we could whiddle this number of failures down by avoiding the over-glorification of the armed forces, as well as the recruitment practices of searching the schools for (among others) smart, usually lone and detached students. Even I managed to get tracked down by a young man sent to JD as a recruiter. I had to tell this guy twice in person that I wasn't interested, and I still got calls and letters from the recruitment office. That's some bullshit.