Today's "The Connection" had a great program about military discipline, the war on terror and Abu Ghraib. Two of the guests are former military men, one the former Judge Advocate General of the Navy:

Reverberations of Abu Ghraib

I only heard the second half of the program so far. I think it is very insightful. But I would remark that we should not think of the soldiers who have been accused and are suspected of torture as children. The state executes men younger than them. The state executes men less intelligent than them. These soldiers are fully adult. Furthermore, additional training may have helped them to handle prisoners better, but they should have been able to distinguish right from wrong without that training or without an intensive reading of the Geneva Conventions. (The whole world knew what was wrong with their behavior without either.)

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