Drums of War

[Wanderfound]

Found an old post of mine in the archives that seems relevant:

Survivors of CIA torture describe homebrew electric chair used at Afghan black site

…which was already hypocritical as fuck, as the US Army had enthusiastically used “the water cure” as torture during the Phillipines war. Soldiers in action will commit war crimes; this is pretty much inevitable. Young men, trained to celebrate violence, placed under extreme stress, facing people who they are encouraged to dehumanise (and who are often racially and culturally distant from them), will frequently do horrific things. But you can reduce the incidence of war crimes by (a) stompi…