The Systemic Variables of War

18 pictures emerged of American soldiers posing with dead members of the Taliban and making it look like the bodies were doing things like having their hand on their shoulder. The army said, we are shocked at what happened in Abu Ghraib. Zimborda's point is that it's not really a few bad apples that say systemic problem. You get these young men and women to have Vim and vigor and go out to kill the enemy,. you dehumanize the enemy, and then you say, hey, we're outraged that you didn't treat this corpse respectfully.