If you think it magically changed between then and now you’re an idiot. It’s the same military, if not worse because they’re even less accountable today with a media that is significantly more captured. They simply indiscriminately kill whoever they feel like killing, whenever they feel like it. Anything bad is covered up except in rare cases where they can not. There’s a damn reason they went after wikileaks as hard as they did for exposing exactly this kind of thing occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.
US soldier describing the crimes they committed in Vietnam
If you think it magically changed between then and now you’re an idiot. It’s the same military, if not worse because they’re even less accountable today with a media that is significantly more captured. They simply indiscriminately kill whoever they feel like killing, whenever they feel like it. Anything bad is covered up except in rare cases where they can not. There’s a damn reason they went after wikileaks as hard as they did for exposing exactly this kind of thing occurring in Iraq and Afghanistan.