Because we do not saddle every individual soldier with responsibility for an entire war. That is the responsibility of politicians, and the people who elect th

Because we do not saddle every individual soldier with responsibility for an entire war. That is the responsibility of politicians, and the people who elect them. Don't like the Vietnam war? Talk to all those people who voted in the leaders that perpetuated that war. Do it fast. They aren't getting any younger. This soldier did not commit a war crime by shooting down an enemy plane. He was doing exactly what he was asked by his country to do.