Have we really learned so little?

[cornermouse]

And how far are we really from repeating Germany's mistake?

After listening to Colin Englebach, commander of the local VFW, on 60 Minutes last night talking about Joe Darby, the Abu Ghraib whistleblower, I have become increasingly uneasy today. Even though he admitted to Anderson Cooper that Grainer and Grainer's friends actions were illegal, he still said "Right. But do you put the enemy above your buddies? I wouldn’t," Engelbach replies.

Those are words which indicate absolute moral bankruptcy on Englelbach and other like-minded individuals in that town and which could be the springboard for a repeat of concentration camps followed by war crime trials for our soldiers; all things we hoped never to see again. But after listening to Engelbach last night, I think I trust our military and its leaders less tonight. I no longer believe it won't happen here.

[cassiepriam]

1. It has already has happened here. Isn't Gitmo a concentration

camp? And haven't we already killed 1 million Iraqis?
Working our way to the 6 million figure?

Human nature is still the same.
We learned nothing, nothing at all.

[Mythsaje]

2. It's not abuse if you can justify it...n/t

[LSparkle]

3. I'm just hoping he's part of that 25%

that would basically follow * off a cliff, who make "gut" decisions that aren't based on logic, who are still so scared after 9/11 that they operate on "autopilot" (right/wrong, good/bad, not even bothering to think about shades of gray). I'd like to believe that the majority of people are better than that, and brave enough to make some tough decisions, even when their "buddies" are involved.