Torture and Sadistic Enjoyment

It now appears that the Abu Gharaib prison scandal will lead to somewhere near the top of the administration and the general in charge OKd it, General Granted Latitude At Prison. Those responsible for ordering, encouraging and allowing such behavior should be brought to justice all the way up the chain of command.

When I look at the above picture of a pretty young woman enjoying the suffering of a human being it raises a new and even more troubling question; who or what created these sadistic enlisted people?

• Was it the community they were raised in, one of intolerance and prejudice?


• Was it their military training?


• Was it the kind of hateful fear that has been incouraged by the Bush administration and their friends in the SCLM


• Was it something else?


• Was it some or all of the above?

The question of why these enlisted people were turned into sadistic abusers of other human beings is more important for our society to answer than who at the top gave the orders.