One of the biggest costs to the USA may be its credibility about how wunderfully moralistic and humanitarian it really is - or is it just the world's biggest hypocrite?. Now that the past history of the 'private contractors' hired to set up the Iraq prison system has come to light - it's more hard to believe the US claims 'we don't do things that way'!

Because 'They Do'!

The ones currently in the news have a past history of abuse, torture, beatings, humilation thru nudity etc in the US Prisons systems... :-)

Robin