Frustrated soldier => nasty human behavior??

Ok, I am no politician and I am certainly not an expert in the foreign affairs, but this bothers me quite a bit.

Reading a news like this makes me wonder where the government should draw a line between having a presence in the foreign country versus respecting the boundary.

This is nothing new. If you look back at the history, every war has indecent stories like this attached to it. US is certainly not alone. However if you look back at last 50 years, US has invaded foreign countries' boundaries more than others. Each time they leave behind scars. People dying in a war is unavoidable. Accidents do happen. However, this is not it. This is a serious crime.

I grew up in Japan hearing news about US soldiers raping girls around the Okinawa US military base. As a kid and not understanding politics the first question that always came to my mind was "why are they allowed in our country?". I understand politics better now, but even then I believe my childhood question is still a valid one. I'm not a judge but if US invades foreign countries in the interest of bringing order to them (and that's a big IF), soldiers raping / murdering innocent people should be considered a 1st degree murder / capital crime. If they are afraid to hand those soldiers a death penalty, I say don't go invading other countries to start with...