Downvoting not because of the celebration of death, but because of the assertion that they are traitors.

They are categorically not traitors. They are following orders from a military headed by a democratically-elected government. To disobey those orders, let alone turn their weapons against our government would be treason.

Traitors to humanity and decency, yes. But not to the United States. Racism, empire, and brutality are not “UnAmerican.” To pretend that this isn’t what we are is a pointless, false platitude grounded in propaganda that we’ve been fed since we were children. If Americans want to be better, then we need to undergo complete transformation, not just course correction. And part of that has to be letting go of these warped, atrophied feelings of patriotism for an ideal that doesn’t and largely has never existed.