Lawlessness imported from America

Iraq and Afghanistan are generally painted as countries that are teeming with lawlessness, but American cases of theft, rape and murder reveal that some of the unsavory elements in the Middle East are imported.

Prisoner abuse has cast a dark shadow over America’s reputation and claims to being the model of democracy. The US has encouraged people to believe that those were the singular acts of a few, but that scandal is far from being the only dirty deed committed by US citizens overseas.

Some, such as Lee William Dubois, have attempted to convert their service in the Middle East into get-rich-quick schemes. More