Man's inhumanity to man is one of the things I will never understand.

What good does it do us to pat ourselves on the back for our advances if we cannot stop using our intelligence to such malevolent ends? Who came up with the idea of putting detainees in diapers as a psychological tool?

It's the same sort of mind that decided to pile naked prisoners in a heap and have a grinning young female soldier mug for the camera in the foreground.

I love my country, and that means I care about acknowledging its faults. Otherwise they never get corrected. If you say nothing, or actually excuse something you know to be wrong, it's like when you carry around a terrible secret that someone needed to know. Except everyone else knows the secret, and they know that you didn't have the guts to tell the person who needed the information.

I hope all of this mess leads to a top-to-bottom overhaul of the way we gather information from prisoners AND the way we treat prisoners, in all facilities in this country, whether state or federal, and whatever the prisoners are accused or convicted of.

If we can send a man to the moon, we can rise above using torture in any form to collect information.