The burden of being virtuous is that you should not use the same methods that the vile used on you.
Something needed to be done about the terror attacks. But that something shouldn't include torture and the summary execution of people.
By hey, we had paperwork and believed enhanced torture was a legal loophole.
I knew a guy who joined the US Marines and talked about how he wanted to "shoot towel heads." I don't believe that the US armed forces are purely virtuous at the top, bottom, or in between levels. There likely is a non-zero number of service men/women who get some sort of sick joy out of murdering non-Americans.
> I don't believe that [they] are purely virtuous
The only claim I'm making is that there are members of the US military at all levels that don't have God-Like Perfect Morality.