The More We Know, The Worse It Gets

I'm torn between saying that you really have to read this article about American soldiers torturing people to death in Afghanistan and saying you don't want to at all. You'll need a strong stomach, anyway.

Comments

[Jim Henley]

Come on, Belle. Didn't you ever go to any frat parties where the brothers beat some cab driver's legs to powder and then hung him from the ceiling until he died?

[Jonathan]

I'd also like for everyone to read Bradley Freedom Foundation Freedom Fighter Awardee Heather MacDonald's City Journal columns on torture in light of this article.

Now there's an organization I'm glad we can say we have nothing to do with.

[ash]

You'll need a strong stomach, anyway.

Cast iron.

I said somewhere else that it would get worse, and lo and behold.

However, it's going to be worse than this.

Multiply everything you read and hear about it by a factor of 10 minimum to a factor of 1000 maximum [couldn't hide more than that] to actually calculate what's going on.

They have a manual. The grunts and the MPs and the generals are following the manual and their orders. And our personel are very efficient.

ash
['Ok, not as efficient as the Germans, but close. More like Russians who can handle clerking without vodka.']

[Thomas Nephew]

"Powder" isn't quite it, I believe "pulpified" was the word the doctor used.

Re worse: especially in the hinterlands of Afghanistan -- ie, everything beyond Kabul/Bagram -- where some soldiers have been effectively beyond control. Check out this Gardez story.