Fair enough, but I saw a documentary that went into the details of the
humiliation and strongly suggested that someone had taken the trouble
to find out what would most demean and shame an Arab male. The case
for such careful research was very strong. The suggestion was not that
the guards knew what they were doing, but that Special Forces had
instructed them.

These days, you can take anyone's suppositions, and call
it a documentary.



The real authority here is the fact that what was done to the
prisoners accords so well with the most degrading and shameful things
that could possible have been done. In other words, it's too perfect
to be a coincidence. They wanted to break these men, and what was
worse, do so in a way that would prevent them ever being able to hold
their heads up in their own society ever again.