Saturday, July 16, 2011

Is it practical to maintain human rights with military prisoners?

The infantry and the dudes who are getting shot at aren't the ones guarding prisoners in these facilities. These are support people (i.e. FOBits) who stay on the FOB all year and don't ever have a single bullet whistle pass their heads. That's why in the Abu Graihb pictures you see all these women. There are no women in combat positions. These are support people who stay on the FOB all year so yeah, when you take a prisoner it might be a very interesting ride for him while you're taking him back to the FOB but you - as an infantry grunt or tanker or whatever combat MOS it is - are not going to be guarding him full-time.

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