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Whether you want to link it to rumsfeld or not, somebody fucked up for making these undertrained reservists do a job that reservists, much less undertrained reservists aren't supposed to do. Whether you can chalk that up to the fact that we seem to be fighting a "war on cheap"(not really that cheap) or not is up to you. I can't imagine what would be said if medics or engineers were asked to interrogate hostile prisoners and some atrocity level shit went down. Under normal circumstances i'm pretty sure that, if given the choice, the army would want people who are qualified to do the things that require qualification.
So i guess my question is, who is holding the army back? Responsibility lies somewhere, right?
The statement that atrocities are part of any military conflict, is unfortunately true(i wonder how many of these dandies we haven't heard about), but it seems like under these circumstances we are practically asking for it. If my 10 yr old cousin(or anyone else who doesn't know how to drive) gets behind the wheel of a car and proceeds to crash it i wouldn't just shake my head and say, "Car accidents are inevitable." There's obviously more to it than just the fact that car accidents do happen. I think we could very accurately attribute the accident to the fact that my cousin had no experience or training and really no business being behind the wheel.
I've heard the president marvel at the "humaneness" of our current war/occupation. I wonder how much more humane it would be if our soldiers were actually qualified to do the jobs the administration is asking them to do.
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