The US military has not been entirely exempt from carrying out atrocities in the past.

The difference from My Lai and stuff like that is that in this case, there is no doubt that whatever has been happening in Guantanamo Bay has happened under the orders of the people higher up. No question of being able to argue it's all down to some bunch of young soldiers who'd been screwed up by battle-fatigue and too many of the wrong drugs and so forth.

If the reports are accurate, it shouldn't just be the hand-on prison guards and their immediate commanders who stand trial, but the people higher up, all the way the top.

But of course that won't happen. That never happens.