Dying to die in Afghanistan

Yes, it's young Prince Harry who was dying to die in Afghanistan for the old and new Empires. He had to come home because he really is third in line to the throne. How boring is that?

Obviously so boring, the 23-year-old prince went off to Helmand Province with the British Army in December, while most of the British news media agreed to keep the news secret for “security reasons.” But the story was broken to little notice in January by the Australian weekly magazine, New Idea, which was unaware of the embargo, and caused a furor when the Drudge Report posted it online. Well, stiff upper lip, Harry.

You’ll have to watch it all in the movies. In fact, the Oscar just went to Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side, which documents the real-life story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver, who on December 5 was brought to Bagram for questioning by US Troops. Five days after his arrival, he was dead. This is one of the more egregious abuses in the jolly old “War on Terror” sanctioned by the less than lustrous powers that be. This, old chap, is what you’re missing . . .

“There were these young soldiers,” an unidentified man says in the film, “very little training, just as the rules were changing, and they weren’t told what the rules were;” and as one PFC says, “the brass knew. They saw them [prisoners] shackled and hooded, and they said, ‘Right on! Y’all are doing a great job.’” And they told him [Dilawar] he had no right to a lawyer, no right to witnesses. He didn’t know what the charges were or what the “secret evidence” against him was. The unidentified man adds, “They saw an intentional decision taken at the height of the Pentagon to put out a fog of ambiguity.”

“Unidentified” previously mentioned “Interrogators were telling the guards, strip this guy naked, chain him up to the bed in an uncomfortable position, do whatever you can.” And they did, beating him to death. Online Journal