Recalling the Shame of Abu Ghraib

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The author is another tool that doesn't under the nature of the business nor the challenge of the task at hand.
You adapt the means of interrogation to match the subject. If cordiality and kindness effectively extract information, do it. If coercion, fear, and abuse work better, do it. The only judgment to pass is if honest and truthful information is milked from the subject. The means of interrogation are irrelevant.
The military should be ashamed for using delinquents, kids, and non-professionals for such a serious task, not for the harshness of treatment applied to prisoners. This is not a business of being moral or nice, it is a business of achieving results.

Not a white american of CA 1:21PM June 02, 2008

So our soldiers were putting panties on prisoners heads at least we were not beheading the prisoners like they were!

Gerald Wood of OH 2:20PM May 21, 2008

The author/contributors to the article are in another world, a world of unreality, a world of political correctness that is the product of the the spoiled, misguided 'boomer' -hippie, dropout generation of which I am a member and of which I distance myself. The draft of 1970 was a line of demarcation which separated a huge number of confused and frightened kids into two camps: those who were self-consumed and those who took a longer view of life on Earth. As much as I distained the (losing)Vietnam policy of our government, I chose the longer view, faced up to my larger commitment as a citizen of a unique Democracy and went to Vietnam. And I am much richer for the experience of sharing time with many a good soldier - both draftee and volunteer. Many of those whose fortunates involved a high draft number or a 'physical' or 'concientious' escape from service found their way into the, then, somewhat 'underground' arenas of academic or politics and now - a generation past - represent the hardend left that sufficates the media and academia...and as a product of this angry, narcissistic, unfulfilled lot of Nihilist, festering for 30-years , you arrive at this myopic view of Abu Ghraib... You and yours will be the end of us.

DR. TIMOTHY A. ROY of NJ 8:36PM May 20, 2008