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To: van_erwin
Actually, when you read the Army's own report of investigation on this situation, her behavior is quite understandable. Unacceptable, as stated in the report, but understandable.

Regrettably, the report cannot address the fact that just having women in uniform and in positions of authority over men is a humiliation to Arab men.

8 posted on 05/07/2004 8:14:28 AM PDT by sailor4321
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To: sailor4321
So Arab men are "humiliated" by women whom they consider the lesser species? I give that a big "so what?"
17 posted on 05/07/2004 8:28:49 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: sailor4321
The key problem of all this 'torture' scandal is not what they did, but how they did it.

Enemy POWs must be interrogated, and of course they won't voluntarily say anything. So for all of time, prisoners have endured less-than-pleasant treatment at the hands of their interrogators. Interrogation is nothing new or improper.

How they did it is the problem. Even if you cast aside morality and decency and all discussion of how bad this looks, etc, what they did was ineffective and stupid. Let's look at it from a purely functional level.

You want some guy to talk. He doesn't want to. So you strip him naked, put him on a leash and make him simulate gay sex? Put womens' underwear on his head? Pile guys in a naked pyramid and take pictures?

Good Lord, what an incredibly ineffective and stupid technique. Do you think that guy is going to talk now? No, now he hates us more than ever and he even hates himself. He probably thinks we are insane perverts. He's still not gonna talk, moreso than before.

Unfortunately, good old fear and pain are what makes men talk. Not humiliation. Not perversion or photos. Maybe spies in the cold war turned people with perverted photos, but not these muslims with prison antics. Someone came up with the bright idea to do stupid, ineffective stuff for interrogations. I doubt it was just the troops in the pics. I also doubt it was Rummy.

25 posted on 05/07/2004 8:50:33 AM PDT by Sender (click HERE for Democratic plan to defeat terrorism)
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