The Falklands War - Jorge Luis Borges called it "two bald men fighting over a comb."

The Bush administration practice of torture recalls that of the Latin American military dictatorships. So does its flair for totalitarian logic. Few understand why American forces now practice torture, sometimes torture to death, and systematic abuse of prisoners and "detainees."
This is conduct for which the Western allies hanged Gestapo and SS officers and Japanese prison camp commanders in 1945. Do not the Bush people, and U.S. Army commanders, know even that much history? (The Falklands: A lesson for America in Iraq - William Pfaff)