Do They Kick Puppies?

The Globe and Mail is reporting that "Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski said that Major-General Geoffrey Miller told her last autumn that prisoners 'are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a dog then you've lost control of them.'"

I guess I'll check and see what Basket Full of Puppies thinks about this statement. I wonder if that counts for the Right Wing Dog Injury Report.

Still--beatings and humiliation--that's not how I'd treat a dog--unless I'd want it to live a completely fucked up life, alternately resenting and fearing its owner.

It's certainly not how to treat a person, unless you're trying to create enemies. Then again, maybe some folks in the Army WANTED enemies. You know, in the same way that some folks like it when computers break down--it's job security. Well, for the high ranking officers, that is. The elisted personnel face additional occupational hazards, of course.

And the country faces a foreign policy failure.