I'm afraid I'm a bit sceptical about the claim that the treatment of prisoners in Abu Ghraib was just a matter of "individual members of the armed forces who were bad guys and girls."

It seems more likely that they were doing what they believed they were expected to do, with some reason, including the high-up authorisation by the USA of "enhanced interrogation" methods which are recognised as torture by most authorities.

I have no doubt that if it ever comes to war crimes trials of Taliban commanders, they will claim that any episodes of maltreatment of prisoners was down to their own "individual bad guys".