I know this is probably going to be found quite unpopular around here, but I felt it was important that I at least throw it out there, if only for my personal feelings on the subject this deals with, which is undoubtebly vile, grotesque, and down right unacceptable by every legal, ethical, moral, and yes even spiritual definition. So here we go:
I am pretty sure I will get lambasted for this, but whatever, so be it.
However I find it irresponsible and even more so, ignorant to start making claims that the US is either "murderers" or "torturers". That is the same type of ignorant labeling, which could be perceived as generalizing/stereotyping, that I though so many people here were against.
First of all I whole heartedly think that the descriped brutality is despicable, criminal, hell, even un-human. I think it is important that whatever needs to be done to stop this type of behavior is, and when situations like what we saw with Abu Gharib (sp?) arise that the country does in fact have the right too see the pictures, for if we don't know abou the problem how will ever solve it. That said, I think what you are doing here is going a little bit overboard in a handful of different ways.
Should this be reported? "this" being the criminal torture of prisoners, yes it should, should it be done the exact way you are doing, I am not so sure. Again I want to reiterate I am 100% against the down right distrubing scenes depicted in your diaries, and am as anti war as they come, I have been before this started and I will be when it ends. But what you are doing crosses the line, at least in my opinion, similar to my feelings regarding Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" crossed the line. *Before you attack, I know they are not DIRECT paralells, I am simply stating that in both cases the root of the message was on point, how the message was conveyed was uneccessary at times, and even borderline offensive to many*
I guess it would be like me writing a series of diaries of stories of American troops being killed, maimed, brutalized, et cetera in an effort to extend my anti war stance. While the whole time doing so with the implications that it's not just the individuals acting in the gnarlish fashion, the ones torturing, beating, killing, burning, be heading, but in fact it was all of them. I say that because I feel like while your intentions are good, your anger may not be directed 100% the right way, you're maybe sitting at a 90% right, 10% wrong, in terms of focusing the blame of these agreed upon atrocities on a whole group of people opposed to those indiviuals within the group who are guilty. I hope I am making sense here, I don't know.
So in closing I am just saying that if all of us were to take to most vile and extreme examples of individuals wrongdoings within a larger group, section, movement, or in this case an entire military outfit I am not sure anything productive would get accomplished. And while your descriptions describe a larger problem, which demands attention, and are issues that are flat out, unarguably wrong --which they really are, this treatment is sick, and it's criminally reprehensible and those who are guilty deserve to rot in jail, and then hell-- but to frame it like I feel you may be doing as a trait EVERYONE associated (in this case the military/para military).
Brutality and death are horrible, horrible things. And they are equally damning no matter whom is doing it, or whom is receiving it, its flat out evil. Period. It's important to rember that attrocities like those mentioned above are happening to individuals equally undeserving as those refrenced in your diary.