Ohiocore

Yoshie Furuhashi has a better blog than mine. Today she hits on the US torture cases in Abu Ghraib prison, with a new piece of information. Apparently at least one case of photo-documented rape of an Iraqi boy was commited not by a US Soldier, but by an American contractor. Recalling the DynCorp sex-slave atrocities, in which contractors in Bosnia bought Eastern European girls as young as 12-years-old, this painfully reiterates the question what accountability do these people have?

As these pictures are republished around the world, there is no serious prospect for reclaiming "hearts and minds" in Iraq anytime soon. That war is lost. We just (proverbially) nuked ourselves.