It sounds like the officers themselves have PTSD.

Basically you have people with serious and untreated PTSD advising, approving and instructing other soldiers with untreated PTSD.

This is serious.

Basically you've got mentally wounded senior staff with serious anger management problems (and often suicidal themseleves) taking their hate and rage out on their fellow officers.

THAT IS WHAT'S HAPPENING

We've got to see that this isn't typical military indifference or a culture of "toughness" -- the officers themselves ar deeply, deeply damaged from the war and are basically taking it out on their fellow soldiers.

Anyone watch My Own Worst Enemy?

No?

Well, didn't we all enjoy Alias? I'm sure we did...right up until it got bogged down in that ridiculous soap opera/love triangle/hidden sister/Rumbaldi bullshit.

So, I man, c'mon. Does it really take a genius to fuse Alias (sex/skimpy outfits/adventure) with the bullshit premise of My Own Worst Enemy? Sounds great on paper....but do you really think this guy has sketched out a 24 episode narrative of spellbinding television? Sounds like he wrote out a paragraph premise (Sexy girl in skimpy outfits has no memory of her past and get programmed with a new identity each week!) and that's all he has! This show was financed based entirely on that one sentence pitch.

There just isn't any meat there.

It would make a great TV movie....but stretching that bullshit out over 24 episodes? Impossible. There simply isn't any STORY there to make it worth watching for that 10 hours, 12 hours, 24 hours.

Sorry Joss. You picked the wrong premise.

99 percent of all movies are composed of nothing but stock 2 dimensional characters.

The cheating bar owner!

The harried housewife!

The Slut!

Aren't we just rehashing the exact same 2 dimensional characters from Sex & the City? (The bubbly blond, the sex-crazed friend, the innocent one, the "smart" one with short hair so that we know she's "smart", etc, etc)

(eye roll) Or, perhaps (yawn)

Just as the press needs to work hard to keep politicans honest...so to do movie reviewers need to work very hard to keep extremely lazy (and more often then not: hack) script writers on their toes.

For years they've been pumping out the same tired crap over and over and over again...and for years many reviewers would hail that recycled hack crap as "brilliant!" thus perpetuating the cycle.

Seems that in 2009 the movie reviewers are calling "Bullshit" on a more regular basis. Finally!

Insert cliched steroptypical charcaters: Lonely Big City Female Executive + Lonely Small Town Blue Collar Worker

Insert cliched situation: Gung Ho + Baby Boom + Men In Trees

Click "Process"

Within 10 minutes you MacBook will spit out "New In Town."

Take directly to any Hollywood produce and immediately collect $1 million dollars.

Not bad! Now if only those hackers could distribute copies of that Automatic Script Composer that pumps out this hackneyed bullshit we could all be million dollar script writers.

But then again the pro-torture advocates know this.

This isn't about anything other then a small portion of the American populace that is, frankly, so full of xenophobica hatred that they simply cannot see straight.

It is unthinkable to these people that we shouldn't "punish" them....even if a lot of them are later released because (oops!) they didn't actually do anything.

"Make'em suffer! Make'em bleed! The only good Iraqi is a dead Iraqi!"

Um...yeah. There is a healthier way for the pro-torture advocates to work out their personal demons than in sexually assualt/torturing POW's at GitMo. I would suggest these people seek out professional help (or maybe crack open a history book and learn that randomly torturing 14 year old boys turned over for bounty to US troops isn't exactly an "effective" military strategy for safeguarding the homeland)

It's time for us to hose the blood and fecal matter off the walls of GitMo and restore some honor to this entire operation.

If China or Iran captured 50 of our soldiers and ass-raped them for 6 years....would these pro-torture advocates still be insisting that it's perfectly legal and moral?

Of course not.

If you are a white, Christian American that you get treated by one set of Rights....if your a brown-skinned foreign devil (and not Christian at that!) then it's okay to do whatever we want to them.

"C'mon! It's not like Iraqi's have souls like regular white Christians!" so explains the pro-torture advocated. "You can beat them as much as you want and it's perfectly okay!"

The double standard here is very revealing.

Let's just be blunt: If you think torturing an Iraqi is okay and that torturing an American is not okay....you're a no different than any other goose-stepping Nazis in 1940.

We have to be honest and call these people out.

Would the Nazis have ever thought it was okay to treat their aryan brothers and sisters in the same manner as they treated the Jews? Of course not. "Jews aren't human like us," the Nazis would rationalize.

Two seperate standards then, two seperate standards now.

White Americans get treated one way.

Brown skinned Muslims get treated by a radically different set of standards and a totally different "morality."

I don't see how any neocon could spin this reality.

At long last the subject of Family Planning is being dealt with by mature, intelligent adults and not zealots and the lunatic fringe.

Thank God for Obama!

Season 2. The King was bored with Queen Ann so he rounded up a bunch of dudes and accused them of "high treason" by having carnal knowledge of the Queen -- thus providing grounds for him to divorce her.

They denied it.

So they tortured them until they admited the truth. (This must be were George got the idea.)

It was disturbing watching some dude ripped apart on the Rack.

But he confessed!

Even though he didn't actually do anything.

How far we've come since the 1500's!