Shit happens. Yes it does. Shit happens when a Western soldier goes off the rails. When an Afghan murders Western soldiers, then it's an atrocity by fiendish towelheads for whom no retribution would be too severe.

As for your suggestion that people who have never engaged in conflict should refrain from commenting, that's patent nonsense. Anyone can see what this soldier did was wrong, and just because other warriors have gone berserk, doesn't mean he can be exonerated from what appears to be a cold-blooded annihilation of peaceful families who were no threat to anyone.

As one Afghan has said, if he's fit to serve as a soldier, he's fit to face an open trial. So long as the trial is under US military law, I believe it should be held in Afghanistan, and in public.