Reply #66: Another cultural angle that I think proves these [View All]

[SeekingTruth]

soldiers were encouraged to act they way they did by those more knowledgeable is in the type of behavior they participated in.

Contrast what they did - had males posing nude with other males, naked males in a pyramid, males simulating oral sex and masturbation, pointing at their genitalia, the dog leash, underpants on the head and so on - to that of the types of abuse and humiliation that goes on in America, especially American prisons.

What sort of things are practiced here? It is not nearly as humiliating for two men to be naked in front of each other or in front of women, stacked in a pyramid nude, or to simulate masturbation. Here in America our tactics include beatings, anal and oral rape and murder. (I'm not saying these things didn't happen in Iraq, only that the things typically found in America weren't necessarily the tactic of choice in Iraq).

My point is that there was more of cultural aspect to the tactics used in Iraq. Those tactics had to originate somewhere.

Until this broke I never realized that it was more humiliating for two Muslim males to be naked in front of each other than that of a woman - I thought it would be the other way around.