[bvw]

That's weird, the "alpha dog" stuff. Here's what I wrote earlier before reading that Frontline excerpt:

Here's my own read on this. Ritter saw and was alarmed by the prisons. It made him mad. He beacme a loose cannon. In the Senate hearings Biden busted him, something snapped -- Ritter was vanquished before the alpha dog or some such rot. Ritter however tried to work through his feelings regarding the abused children in Iraqi prisons by redirecting that feeling into sexually caring for random acquantices in "Kiddie" interent chat-rooms -- even though he knew many of those kiddies were other role-playing adults and internet cops. That assuaged his inner morality's sense of vanquishment -- consistent with the "everything is perverted and wasted" sense that came with that vanquishment.

To further wear that perversion's hair shirt -- to complete his sense of "submission" to the dark side -- he took up the Iraqi Regime's cause.

See my reply 24 on the FR thread "PRISONS FOR CHILDREN DISCOVERED IN BAGHDAD "

[The Great Satan]

That's one sick puppy you're talking about.