Anonymous sacrifice in unseen wars is not healthy for a democracy. And with a military that represents less than 1 percent of the population, few Americans need personally to confront the human cost. But some surely do.

What is there to think about, anyway? What is there to say, really, except that there's absolutely no excuse? No excuse for the policy makers and officers, but neither is there one for the brutalized young perpetrators.

At the same time, if we care about our nation's ability to act as a democracy, we need to ask ourselves and our mainstream media hard questions about how it happened.

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