Patterns

Adam Jones writing in Counterpunch, reminds us of another instance of prisoner abuse--the appalling instance in Afghanistan where several hundred POW's were allowed to suffocate in semi-trailers. Technically under the control of our Northern Alliance allies, the United States exercised control in the same sense that Israel was ultimately responsible for the massacres perpetrated by their Phalangist allies at Sabra and Shatila in 1982.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it...