And the Democrats may further sour the atmosphere by attaching to the budget measures the Republicans oppose, allowing gays to serve openly in the armed forces or granting citizenship to illegal immigrants who join the army or attend university.
This is not to say that everybody in the Army as an individual was tainted and people in the Army are welcomed to come back and join - and have come back to join various other security forces once they are vetted and it's determined that they are not part of the previous regime's crimes.
It also sets the conditions for Hamas to integrate its forces and eventually take over the US-trained Palestinian army in Judea and Samaria and to join the PLO.
Syrian officials say about 2, 000 members of the security forces have been killed in the unrest, which has become increasingly violent as defectors from the armyjoin the opposition.