[mburbank]

This is what happens in a war. It is the perfect situtaion to make people do insane shit. You're authorized and encouraged to end other poeples lives and at any instant you might die horribly. It's such a big jump to make people strip and wear hoods and lie on each other for the joy of humiliating them?

In every war, the 'good guys' do terrible, terrible things, and that's if they only do exactly as they're told. I every war some of the 'good guys' go insane or find themsleves in a position to act on dark fanatsies that in a normal life they never never would have. In every war 'good guys' do and see things that will torment them the rest of their lives, things way outside of anything they ever imaggined temseves capable of.

That's what war is. Institutionalized insanity. If you think you can send kids to war and expect they'll stay sane and follow the rules you're dreaming. War is barbarity. That's the whole point. If we don't want our guys to engage in barbarity, we shoud try much harder to keep them out of wars.