Re: American marines insulting dead bodies
err if this was a one off event, then maybe you could use that excuse. Bu this is one of a series of similar events, and its actually becoming a trademark of the US marines.. The perpetrators almost always get away scot free, so yes its is wholly representative of the US army, and not much different to the taliban on the moral scale. (were they even taliban?)
point in case: Haditha massacre, Abu ghraib iraq.