GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

Remember the hanging and beating of an Afghan prisoner at Bagram, while his knees were pummeled to a pulp until he died? The second soldier implicated has just been acquitted. The bottom line in the AP story is the following: “No one has been charged with the detainee’s death.” As one of the other soldiers said in a previous investigation: “I just don’t understand how, if we were given training to do this, you can say that we were wrong and should have known better.” The shame deepens. They’re not even scape-goating any more. No one is accountable for the U.S. military torturing someone to death. And, yes, the victim was hooded at the time he was beaten. It’s the American way now.