Westie,
The world is shaded in various hues of grey. It is not just black and white.
I am not suggesting that the UK Armed Forces' behaviour has always been beyond reproach, nor that we have not engaged in brutal and even illegal behaviour.
But you compared USMC murders of large groups of civilians with "the actions of some Brits in NI when under the extreme stress they were under."
That's not justified, or fair, and should not go unchallenged.
Nor, Brick, have I seen any evidence of that kind or level of indiscriminate, cowardly violence in Kenya or Malaya 50 years ago. And while beating teenagers is deplorable, in my skewed moral code, it doesn't quite equate with shooting infants.
And, Confucious, the real enemy are the bottom feeding scum whose behaviour besmirches the reputation of a once proud military formation - not those who comment on or report it.