I agree with some parts of what you say, but this:

They are still perpetrators and wrongdoers but they are also victims and have had wrong done to them.

Feels like whitewashing criminals. Yes the guys may not have had the resources nor the wake up call before joining but so what? does that excuse any of them from going half a world away to participate in a genocide? or more recently does any of that excuse them from killing innocent fishermen in the coasts of Venezuela/Colombia? fuck no.

First of all, Charlie deserved it.

However gotta admit, my first thoughts were along these lines. It took me to see the reactions of the right wing pundits in my country to go full party mode just to spite those fuckers.