A Professional Army?

Reading about the latest brouhaha in Afghanistan, the photos of our troops posing with Taliban corpses and parts of corpses, and last month's assassinations of civilians by one of our boys, and the similar 'minor' incidents that have occurred in Iraq and Afghanistan over the course of these wars, I started to wonder whether these incidents are another price of having a professional army.

A Google search demolished that argument.  War attracts certain people, some of whom kill civilians and prisoners of war.  When you consider the different states of the media - it is more difficult to hide war crimes now - it's possible that we are less criminal than previous armies.