May 20, 2005

US Torturing People to Death in Afghanistan

It's not that this kind of report should be viewed as all that new or surprising, but I'm linking to this because I think it's extremely important that we don't forget 1) what Americans are complicit in (or at least that's the view of many) as part of our government's actions to bring "democracy" to Southwestern Asia and 2) the kinds of people that Americans turn our soliders into in order to ensure that they can carry out the orders that come from being placed in situtations that lead to these types of actions. Read on, if you can stomach it.

Posted by armand at May 20, 2005 01:17 PM | TrackBack | Posted to International Affairs


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