[Alberta's Child]

This story is going to disappear from the headlines faster than anyone could possibly imagine.

For one thing, the "wrong" leader is in the White House for this sort of thing, as far as the U.S. media are concerned. The soldiers who put underwear ont the heads of prisoners at Abu Ghraib were portrayed as war criminals by the U.S. media, while they're already reporting unsubstantiated hints about a mysterious "head injury" that this guy suffered in Iraq.

Secondly, the details of this story may well include some extremely embarrassing facts about the perpetrator's prior medical or personal history that would lead any objective observer to question why he was ever sent to Afghanistan in the first place.

And thirdly (and perhaps most important of all), there's always going to be a fear that this sort of episode is actually going to be far more effective in "winning" over in Afghanistan (whatever that is even supposed to mean) than any of the other nonsense the U.S. has been doing for more than a decade.

[fallujah-nuker]

And thirdly (and perhaps most important of all), there's always going to be a fear that this sort of episode is actually going to be far more effective in "winning" over in Afghanistan (whatever that is even supposed to mean) than any of the other nonsense the U.S. has been doing for more than a decade.

Sort of like the movie "Death Wish" where the NYC government was embarrassed by how much crime had dropped? Seeing what the guy did reminds of the movie "Patton," when Patton took command at the beginning of the movie. He found one guy sleeping, and told him to go back to sleep because he was the only guy who seemed to know what he was doing. If every GI who had been through Afghanistan had done the same, we could have avenged 9-11 a thousand fold, rather than this Sally Struthers nation building Kumbaya nonsense. Our 9-11 memorial should have been a wasteland of solitude where Kandahar once stood. The Pashtun are taking up good snow leopard habitat.