““We had no support, no training whatsoever, and I kept asking my chain of command for certain things, rules and regulations, and it just wasn’t happening,” Sergeant Frederick said.” (The Age, today)
Yeah, because you need someone else to tell you that it’s not OK to make people stand on boxes and tell them they’ll be electrocuted if they fall. You aren’t sure in your own heart whether you should make naked Muslim men pose in sexual positions for you while you laugh at them. It’s just such a grey line, you know?
I was revolted when I heard this last night and I’m revolted by the responses from the Army leaders to it and to Bush’s self-serving speech about airstrikes in Falluja. What, we didn’t think Americans were capable of this? Do we have such short memories, General? What about My Lai? It wasn’t *that* long ago, surely?