>>Yet the evidence given today by 10 people -- including members of the
>>criminal investigation teams, commanders and Sergeant Ronghi's fellow
>>soldiers -- revealed some of the circumstances of the death and the
>>profound impact it has had on the unit.
>
>This is an odd sentence. I didn't see anything in this account that pointed
>to any "profound impact" that this pedophiliac killing supposedly had on
>other US military stationed in the area.
Neither do I. Getting away with a lot of things in poor countries is part and parcel of the ruling ideology and practice of imperialism, and it is no wonder that some soldiers think it makes them personally omnipotent and immune from outraged locals.
Yoshie