As modern military "torture" goes, Abu Ghreib was hardly more than an American fraternity initiation. Furthermore, the incident was fully investigated by the US Army itself and at least some of the idiots responsible have been charged. The first one to be court-martialed has just been convicted.

To me, people who are pleased that they can lump a few violators of regulations who humiliated a dozen prisoners with the Nazi government that slaughtered six million have some serious problems with perspective, however humane their intentions may be.

Our world is a rotten place and we have to learn to navigate it as best we can. One basic way is to recognize like and unlike.

America had slavery! Russia had the Gulag! Gorsh, I guess we're the same!

(Of course, what all this has to do with Janet Jackson's right breast mystifies me.)