I’m thinking that what David Morrison has to say about the vile treatment of Iraqi prisoners is pretty intriguing

Back to the bad news. I am afraid that this represents the….increasing depravity abroad in this country. The U.S. armed forces in Iraq now has a larger percentage of reservists among its ranks in recent history. And while I, as a former Navy man myself including time in the reserves, draws back from blaming anyone as a group for what happened – I think these two facts are connected. It is not a twisted “military culture” that allowed these things to happen, it was men and women whose lives are essentially civilian and who are more 90% of the time NOT military – and I deeply fear this says more about us than we would like to admit.