War Is Hell Without the Right Corset

This week a rift developed between the Department of Defense and the State Department. The DOD is issuing another manual regarding the treatment of enemy prisoners and detainees. The DOD has decided to leave out of the manual the Geneva Convention's rule against "inhumane and humiliating treatment of prisoners." (real quote). The State Department wants the language included, perhaps thinking that at least giving lip service to the notion of being human may be helpful at some point. For insight on the debate, we talked to an anonymous source at the Pentagon: "The State Department is full of over-educated gutless pussies. They do not have the courage to place naked men in human pyramids, they do not have the raw guts it takes to terrify a bound man with a Belgian Shepard, they cannot muster the bile to stick a vegetable where the sun doesn't shine, and they certainly do not have the cohones to open our vast store of women's lingerie and have themselves an all Arab drag party. Think about it. What should be the symbol of American power? What image should lay in the minds of our enemies and allies? The Geneva Accords? The UNs Blue Helmet. Iwoa Jima? Normandy? Or a blindfolded Arab man, bound to his rack in a red thong? "