On 3/19/2011 8:26 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2011-03-19 18:04 , P. J. Alling wrote:
If Manning is being mistreated it will come out and
heads will roll.
his mistreatment is "out" already -- it's been covered and
editorialized about in the New York Times, The Guardian, The Daily
Beast, etc.; and because it's been excused (and many people have a
stake in the maintenance of that excuse) there seems a faint chance
that heads will roll
the General in charge of Abu Ghraib [...] the
Skipper of the Enterprise
i have followed those scandals with curiosity; there was also Gen.
Stanley McChrystal; but each of these actually disproves your thesis
-- if these high-ranking officers were so rational, they wouldn't have
done these "risky" things in the first place; it seems likely the
organizational culture led to these behaviors
You know, I can't refute your argument, it's just so air tight. I bow
to your superior intellect. The fact that McChrystal got into trouble
for making fun of his superiors, and you know, who wouldn't make fun of
Joe Biden, and Capt. Owen was relieved because he made some tapes to
raise moral as XO, that wouldn't have actually raised an eyebrow it they
had been produced for Cinemax, kind of makes my point. But don't
worry. You win. I'll go away quietly. It really matters not to me if
I win this argument. If you want to believe that the US Government
sanctions torture for tortures sake I can't stop you.
--
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--Marvin the Martian.
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