“I attended a continuing legal education seminar for Army Reserve and National Guard lawyers last weekend. I was struck by one thing: The biggest response from a ballroom full of JAG lawyers was when one dynamic Colonel spoke and said the Army needed to do a better job in handling detainees. He quoted a dispatch from WWII when the commander of a US prisoner of war camp reported back that his camp was under air attack by the German air force, that he could not protect his German prisoners of war, and he had opened the gates and set them all free. This is the standard for the US Army and we need to live up to it. The room cheered. My impression is that the people who have been trained in this stuff (at least the citizen solders) may not be terribly pleased and indeed may be somewhat embarrassed with how this is unfolding. This is also consistent with the JAG lawyers being kept out of the loop.” Yep. Good soldiers don’t believe in this poison. Alas, their civilian superiors do.
CORRECTION: The newly minted word “santorum” – meaning “the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex” – didn’t win the word of the year according to the American Dialect Society; it won the most outrageous word of the year. My apologies.
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