Maybe the future is in outsourcing?

[Ivo Skoric]

New commander of Abu Ghraib comes there from a Guantanamo Bay, which 
while being criticized by international human rights organizations 
for inhumane treatment of prisoners, at least, did not produce 
thousands of incriminating pictures and videos about it. I am sure he 
will make sure Abu Ghraib receives the same smooth guidance. First 
two things he did is to stop millitary intelligence unit from giving 
orders to military police unit, reinstating the normal army command 
procedure, and to move Iraqi detainees under American guard from the 
old - cursed - Abu Ghraib prison structure, and into the new 
provisory building the US is putting up there, out of superstition 
that the walls of Abu Ghraib, saturated with screams of decades of 
Saddam Hussein's victims who were tortured there, would somehow 
continue to corrupt hearts and minds of young Americans serving there 
into becoming the bestial torturers and take pictures of 
themselves... Event Horizon? Or maybe THIS is the secret Saddam's 
weapon of mass destruction? A virus hidden in the Abu Ghraib that 
makes people loose all empathy for the other human beings?

Meanwhile the foot-soldiers charged for wrongdoing are brought back 
to the show trial in the US. Americans can, indeed, do great court 
trials. So, we are in for some good TV. Already, Sivits, the one who 
was the quickest to make a deal with the government, is telling the 
government story: there were no orders, we did it because we were 
stupid, or whatever; I am guilty, and the others are (much) guiltier; 
now, please, let me go and put them in prison. He was just standing 
around and laughing. Frederick and OTHERS did the kicking, stomping, 
ordering detainees to strip and masturbate, and so on. Others have 
such improbable names like England and Wisdom (the later being 
obviously quite inappropriate for the bearer). He particularly 
dislikes one named Graner, whom he blamed for the heaviest of the 
abuses. Now, the viewers are anxious to hear what Graner has to say 
about that. This brings guaranteed high TV ratings to the station 
that will broadcast the trial. Good ad revenue. Because everything 
can and is turned into profit.

For the future, however, to avoid the emabarassment of watching your 
own boys and girls misbehaving in such a way, maybe Pentagon should 
outsource its prisons supervision to people with far more experience 
in humiliating Muslims...
http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23706

ivo