New story on Abu Ghraib (Worth reading)
Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker has a
new story on how the entire Abu Ghraib incident came to pass. The story relies a great deal on background sources, so it's got to be read carefully with a skeptical eye - but it smells more or less right to me.
( Some thoughts on itCollapse )Key lesson from this: There are some very ugly things that are sometimes necessary. When those things have to be done - and sometimes they have to - it's not something that can be delegated to just anyone. It requires people who are not only supremely competent at their work, but have the maturity for moral introspection, and the ability to thereby control their own impulses even when doing such things. Not a job to farm out to random schmucks.
Anyway - a very interesting read, both for the main story and for the incidental glimpses it gives into many of our operations and the people behind them. Whether or not you agree with my opinions on the matter. :)
