December 27th, 2009 01:29pm
Swiss Cheese
by Steve.Rustad
Three Navy Seals are being charged with prisoner abuse in connection with the capture of Ahmed Hashim Abed, the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of 4 civilian contractors in 2004. The damage they inflicted on the detainee? A bloody nose. Were their actions exposed by a tenacious press? No. They were reported up the chain of command by their immediate supervisors who hoped to avoid a media frenzy like over-hyped Abu Ghraib incident. Winston Churchill famously said that English soldiers were lions led by jackasses. I suspect our lions are being lead by rodents.