Actually King, you're wrong again. Incidents like this demonstrate an abhorrent but sadly natural facet of human behavior. American, Japanese, German, Russian, Arab... whoever, it doesn't really matter. It is a demonstrated fact that a certain amount of sadistic cruelty will inevitably develop when one party (in this case the military prison guards) wields basically absolute power over another. (Iraqi prisoners)

We've all heard the horror stories of atrocities committed at POW camps during WW2 and Vietnam. To a MUCH lesser extent, this is a manifestation of the same basic behavioral characteristic.

Whether the guards were ordered to humiliate the prisoners to "soften them up for interrogation" or not has yet to be proven. IMO, the main issue that proves my above contention is the smile on the female guard's face in the released photos. She obviously takes a certain measure of delight in what she's doing.

If you think about it... who among us wouldn't also find a certain satisfaction in humiliating the "enemy". It's the same instinctual behavior that civillian prison guards must deal with every day.
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