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evading the justice system is a cause for pride?

What justice? From Nat Helm's article:

..........."Why the charges were brought in the first place still mystifies the lawyers who defended Nazario. There was never any corroborating physical evidence to support the charges, McDermott says. Despite intensive records searches during the worldwide investigation that followed no evidence of the insurgent’s existence or deaths was ever found. The investigation officially began on October 16, 2006 and ended on April 8, 2009. The last entry in the 2,700-plus page report merely says, “This investigation is closed.” "............

............The Thundering Third used every weapon at its disposal; bombs, rockets, grenades, machine guns, rifles, knives and fists to exterminate a ruthless al Qaeda led enemy that thought beheading civilians was great sport. Nobody knocked first to see who was inside a barricaded house. Their calling card was something that exploded. After they finished the enemy off the Thundering Third sometimes ordered Israeli-made armored bulldozers to grind the flattened houses containing their bodies into the dirt. It was that kind of war.

The two Marines who refused to testify had already been jailed and faced criminal contempt charges for their refusal to testify. Here's what the judge in Nazario's case thought about their "evasion of justice". From VIEW FROM THE COURTROOM: NAZARIO TRIAL, DAY TWO

Larson, [the judge] who has shown remarkable restraint during the entire bizarre proceeding, shrugged off Behnke’s demand to immediately jail the Marines. Instead, he ordered the men before his bench on September 29th to decide what he ought to do with them.

“There is no maximum limit to what sentence this court can impose,” he warned the assembled cast.

Both Nelson and Weemer already spent three weeks in civilian confinement in May and June after Larson, and another US district judge, sent them to the slammer for refusing to testify to the Grand Jury that indicted Nazario. They never budged.

"Placing either of these two men in jail would have no effect,” Larson reasoned. “There is probably not a whole lot in this world that these men fear."

Eventually, the government dropped the criminal contempt charges (Sept. 23, '08) before any hearing was held.