I half-heard something startling on the radio the other day. At first I thought they were talking about the Abu Ghraib incident. But I think it was more than that. Other prisons, more incidents. They talked about women and children forced to see their husbands and fathers humiliated in prison, or being imprisoned themselves. The news guy on the radio was talking about potential hearings and proceedings concerning the actions of soldiers stationed at these prisons.
I was struck with the odd realization that this isn’t just the media making a big to do about nothing. There is something bigger going on here. This behavior among the soldiers was too widespread for it to be random acts of evil. Groups of people in different locations don’t just start doing things like this spontaneously. Someone was telling them to do this stuff.
