Bradley Manning just leaked one instance of human error that caused innocent people to die. Now he will spend much of his life in prison.
No idea why people call this guy a hero. If you read any history of any war, innocent people die because of human error.
Would we really go to war if we knew the true extent of human suffering? Maybe, but visibility to such suffering at least allows people to feel sympathy, instead of simply being ignorant to suffering.
"Sunlight is the best disinfectant" --U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis
Look a Supreme Court justice agrees with that because I put an out of context quote from him.
You mostly don't read about innocent people dying in war. It's expected and nobody really cares. History books talk about how amazing the Roman or British empires were. When did you ever read anything more than vague lip-service about all the killing of innocent people that involved?