“He didn’t do anything but be a gung-ho Marine.”

In a culture that encourages torture, soldiers will, in the absence of other targets, torture other soldiers. Says Matt, who gets the hat tip, “[I]t is the inevitable blowback of the Bush administration’s championing of torture.” Yes. It is.

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