I spy a pillock...
The thing about this cretin is that he's a disgrace to his own country, let alone an insult to ours.
The vast majority of US service people do a great job, and do not even attack friendly forces that often.
He clearly has no interest ( the upsetting thing is he probably has a clue, but chooses to ignore it for his 'angle') of the pressures involved when your buddies are threatened with torture, let alone the fact that one is a woman and has already been used as a pawn by the low-life scum.
Maybe he's the type who would just let them suffer while keeping quiet ?
In this situation, it makes sense to go along, it's doing no harm & no-one takes their talk under duress seriously.
In the long term they mght learn their mistake...
I'm most certainly no UK marine, but if you get a spare seat on that plane I'll happily come & film it !