I normally find Anne Applebaum a bit too partisan to be persuasive, but I will link to today’s column because she builds (more ably - she’s a professional) on my “why the smling penis-pointing chick is scary” meme that I developed in yesterday’s post.

They also took photographs of themselves, grinning and pretending to shoot at the genitals of their captives, even though the prisoners came from a society that values physical modesty, even though some of the guards were women. Finally, they took photographs of at least one other Iraqi who had, apparently, been beaten to death. Those responsible did not commit these acts because they were Americans, although some will surely say so. But nor did being American stop them.

Read the rest here.