Lest anyone accuse me of, you know, getting out in front of the news cycle.*

For those of you who have yet to see it, the internet is buzzing over this interview with former Army Ranger Jessie [in some accounts, “Jesse”] MacBeth, who—like a modern day Winter Soldier—spins the familiar anti-war tale of an idealistic young man who goes into service proudly and eagerly, only to become disillusioned by the way his own comrades-in-arms are directed to behave by a brutish US military command, who