For the past 6 or 7 years, I’ve kept an increasingly fat folder labelled “Atrocities.” It contained reports of abuses by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan so egregious that even the military couldn’t ignore them. I retitled it “A Few Bad Apples” when it became clear that those who got caught had to be portrayed as anomalies so as to avoid the central question of what the hell they’re doing there in the first place.


Sunday, May 3, 2015

Boot camp overload/overlord?

Staff Sgt. Dustin Barker faces a general court martial, the most severe legal punishment, for tormenting marines under his command at Guantanamo and Camp Allen in Norfolk, VA. Barker is from Kentucky and has been in Iraq and Afghanistan since he joined up in 2002.
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