The ACLU is reporting that the deaths of at least 21 American held detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan were homicides.

The documents show that detainees were hooded, gagged, strangled, beaten with blunt objects, subjected to sleep deprivation and to hot and cold environmental conditions...

While newspapers have recently reported deaths of detainees in CIA custody, today's documents show that the problem is pervasive, involving Navy Seals and Military Intelligence too.

News like this should lay to rest the myth of American moral superiority. However, the faithful masses, convinced of the goodness of their state-god and his anointed servants, will undoubtedly weave endless arguments about the evil of moral equivalency and how, despite these crimes, the US war machine is the most moral and benevolent in the history of man. They will comfort their guilty consciences by convincing themselves that no other nation has ever held so much power and used it to do so much good, that the US cannot be justly compared to the truly wicked regimes that dot the globe and that 2 + 2 = 5.