Simply Evil

Last week I wrote about the circumstances, fairly well understood now, which some humans have learned to use to manipulate others, even young adults and well trained soldiers. Were the wardens of Abu Ghraib intentionally manipulated to do evil? If so, by who or what? Was it their commanding officers or the system of power we've established for controlling evil that warped upon itself to cause evil itself?

Sadly, there's nothing complicated about another form of manipulation which appears to be rampant in our country—somewhere between 10,000 and 50,000 young girls are trafficked through our country as sexual slaves.

The New York Times > Magazine > The Girls Next Door: "'There's a vast misunderstanding of what coercion is, of how little it takes to make someone a slave,'' Gary Haugen of International Justice Mission said. ''The destruction of dignity and sense of self, these girls' sense of resignation. . . . '' He didn't finish the sentence."