We need to compensate for this embarassment. We need to spread horrific rumors about real torture and mistreatment. This is embarassing. We're supposed to strike fear in the hearts of our enemies.
"We need to compensate for this embarassment. We need to spread horrific rumors about real torture and mistreatment. This is embarassing. We're supposed to strike fear in the hearts of our enemies."
Fear in the hearts of our enemies but not the undecided civillian population. We went to Iraq to introduce democracy and the rule of law. Showing that our own who sink below that threshold of expected behaviour are not above that law is a good example. Those soldiers disgraced the flag they serve and the cause they're supposed to exemplify.
You seem to be arguing that we copy the Russian tactics in Chechnya. It didn't help them....