There are a few bad apples in EVERY bushel.
I'm in agreement... Punching a detainee (who had to to have been handcuffed and/or shackled, and probably 'hooded') in the face is a cowardly, sadistic means of torture. It is against US Military Law. Bad apples, indeed. Yet, to quote your opening statement: 'First of all if Navy Seal says he didn't do it, he didn't do it. Secondly if he did, who cares? ' So, obviously this type of torture is 'justice?'
Our military are the best in the world...
We spend more tax dollars on our military than the rest of the world combined. I'll agree we have the best. Is it worth sacrificing our infrastructure, social services, teachers, etc.?
...and they are out there protecting your right to think and say anything you wish.
You say that, but do you really believe it? Do you seriously believe the Taliban, or al'CIAda, is threatening my freedoms? In the '80's we supported them...but now that our government can't use Communism to put fear in our hearts, their saying that 'Islamofascists' want to kill us all. The Patriot Act steps harder on my (our) freedoms than any foreign enemy ever will. Our government wants to know everything about us, they look in our 'puters, at our emails, tap our phones, know our passwords. But goatherders living in Afghani caves 'threaten our rights?' Oooookay....
We are polar opposites on this topic for sure.
I guess, but it's never too late to think for yourself.
"I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe."- Abe Lincoln
" With unfailing consistancy, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of the poor and needy. Rather than strengthening democracies, U.S. leaders have overthrown numerous democratically elected governments or other populist regimes in dozens of countries ... whenever these nations give evidence of putting the interests of their people ahead of the interests of multinational corporate interests. "-- Michael Parenti, political scientist and author
"War is a racket." - Brig. General Smedley Butler (Marines), the most highly decorated soldier at his retirement