Wil's Rant

It's all fairly predictable. British soldiers get caught, just like their buddies, the Americans, abusing and torturing prisoners. Soldiers say the same thing, they were following orders, soldier goes to jail for a long time. The quality of any military service is directly proportional to the discipline practiced by their troops. To suggest that any superior does not know what his men are doing is to either say that he is incompetent or lying. This type of thing usually occurs when the troops are encouraged to act in an unethical fashion. I liked the old days better, that is the days when superior officers spent a whole lot less time trying to protest that they didn't know what their men were doing, and a whole lot more time accepting their responsibility for the actions of their men, and making damn sure the same mistakes never get made twice.