America, home of the brave?

My school has been participating in the white ribbon campaign this week which seeks to stop violence against women and is usually promoted on the anniversary of the massacre of 16 women at a university in Canada by a man who felt as that women were limiting his chances of succeeding. Anyway, every year, there's an organization at school who sets up tables in front of dining halls, on the drillfield, etc. trying to get guys to sign a pledge and giving them a white ribbon to wear.

Well, yesterday, I'm walking to class and there is a cadet who is working a table in front of the building. He is casually announces, "sign a pledge to stop abuse against women," to people passing by. This one kid gets really upset and goes up to him and says, "how dare you work on such a campaign when you're the ones over in Iraq raping women?" I was completely shocked. This guy was not discrete in saying this either, he was screaming at the cadet in front of a lot of people. The cadet was just sitting there, and said, "you don't have to sign it." And the guy kept hasseling him and asking what he thought he was doing and implying that HE was the one who was raping women. It was terrible and unnecessary. Some kid standing by yelled, "shut up, he's a cadet, he's never even been to Iraq." The guy responded by saying, "I can say whatever I want, this country isn't facist like the ROTC. This is a democracy, it's what we SHOULD be fighting for instead of raping women." And afterwards, nobody said anything because this guy was so upset.