To the editor:

After exposing to the world how we treat prisoners of war (Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo are only two of many), what will happen to this young American Army private from Idaho who has been captured by some Afghan military? The bad guys from the bad army have captured a U.S. soldier from the good army, the army fighting for peace and justice.

But to many Afghans, this young man is a POW and a member of an invader/occupier army that is killing Afghan men, women, children.

This is not a pretty picture.

Will POWs from the good army, captured by the bad army, be subjected to the same torture tactics approved by the Bush administration for the good army? And if they subject POWs to the torturous indignities U.S. military guards in Abu Ghraib, Baghdad’s central prison, used on Afghan (and Iraqi) prisoners, and they provide photographs of the torture, how will the U.S. respond?

I have a feeling we will send more troops, continue to threaten Afghan villagers about helping the Afghan enemy at the risk of their Afghan villages being destroyed. (Remember Vietnam policy?).

How Americans can allow themselves to be convinced, by lying politicians and their appointed puppets, that citizens are obligated to do as the commander in chief orders and fly around the world killing people and spending more money on war than it would take to feed and house the millions of starving and homeless people in the world is boggling my mind.