Allow me to rephrase. My desk is 200 meters away, which is where I sit at the moment. My coin team and the other 200+ individuals that work for me just became bigger targets, and their jobs just got that much harder and more dangerous.
If you want to condone war crimes, maybe you should reevaluate the oath you took. I've flown my share of OEF CAS missions but down here in the dirt shit like this becomes a much bigger deal. This isn't like the 15E's that bombed a tanker in Konduz on accident... what these guys did was blatant. Putting a GBU-38 into the wrong building, strafing on a bad target ID, those are all mistakes. This is totally different.
I don't care whether you think COIN is stupid/worthless or not, the bottom line is you have comrades that are executing it because they were told to, and giving it their very best. These Marines just undid the work of thousands, and put others in more peril than they already are.
Also, if you don't think anyone is already using this as propaganda then maybe you could come down and explain it to the ANA that want nothing more than to talk about it. "How could they do this?" "Why would they do this?" "What is being done?" There are several hundred of them here, and if one decides that the behavior of these Marines is enough to change his mind about what side he's on, it could be a very bad day for US service memebers. It's happened before.