| Examples, I want examples!!!
The USMC Small Wars Manual says "...Marines are not to judge native by American standards and give due consideration to their pride, their religions, their class distinction and other social customs...Marines were not to issue orders that needlessly damage people's self-esteem nor to make people suffer humiliation punishments...Warning that reprisals and other drastic punitive measure might "create sympathy for the revolutionists, destroy lives and property of innocent people, and have adverse effect on the descipline of out troops."
I believe that the American Command never issued orders to abuse the prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, but I also believe the command never issed orders to treat the prisoners with respect either. The pictures showing AMERICAN soldiers abusing Iraqi (muslim) prisoners had done more to hurt the operation in Iraq than the deaths of 100 innocent civilians. Not to mention the fact that it pissed off muslims around the world.
I find it interesting that the problems that we are encountering today are addressed in an USMC manual written in 1940. |