Scott Horton on Prisoner Abuse

You've probably seen this at Balkinization by now. If not, please do go read it.

It frequently strikes me that the people who seem to have the most respect for the military are the least outraged by these revelations. Similarly and on a bigger scale, those who profess the most respect for the United States are least outraged when we do something wrong. I consider myself strongly pro-U.S. and at least somewhat pro-military (that is, I have a good bit of respect for the institution). And it makes me sick to hear about what we and our agents have been doing. Among other things, Horton drives home the point that the very principles that make the U.S. military admirable have been violated by the abuse of prisoners. The more information we get, the more our military begins to look like just another bunch of thugs--to look, that is, like almost every other military in the history of the world.