Why are we still in 'Vietghanistan?'

[TedBronson]

1. It's all relative...

... and there is a spectrum.

Abu Ghraib was a freak show of a perfect storm of an incompetent CDR and 1SG who never visited their areas of responsibility and some twisted middle and jr enlisted who were allowed to run free. So many things had to happen ahead of time before that tornado of failure could happen. One in a million.

Pissing on corpses.... Doesn't surprise me but a competent leader would have nipped it in the bud. Nothing good was coming out of it.

I have a hard time working up any outrage about the last salvo of photos with the Soldiers holding remains of a premature detonator. In their minds, that is a good day because the asshole only took himself out before he could harm them or civilians. Again though, a decent leader would push that professionalism and tell them to wipe the damn smiles off their faces and document the scene properly.