Evaluation:
Published: 24.05.2004.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Poor Leadership is Responsible for Iraqi Prisoner Atrocities ', 1.
Extract

Donald H. McGannon once quoted that "Leadership is action, not position". The author of a recently published Associated Press article titled "Troops Reprimanded for Abuse", sited training as the reason for the abuse of prisoner in Iraq. I don't believe training should be solely blamed as the cause for these atrocities. I believe that poor Leadership is the cause for the behavior US soldiers demonstrated against Iraqi prisoners. As a recently retire Military Policeman from the United States Air Force, I find the actions of a few Army Soldiers to be an abomination against everything I spent twenty-two years protecting. …

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