"Boys will be boys." Maureen Dowd "explains" the massacre in Hadithah: "American troops are under spectacular emotional pressure. They go out every day, not knowing Arabic, not understanding the culture, not knowing who the insurgents are, not knowing when they can go home or which of their buddies will be blown up before their eyes by an unseen enemy." So by her logic, if you find yourself in a country and you don't know its language, you are justified if you start shooting at its civilians?