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Series Editor’s Preface
Most people think they know all that there is to know about the Abu Ghraib torture
scandal: the “bad apples” (referring to a handful of allegedly corrupt soldiers)
allegedly had fair trials; they went to jail for allegedly committing acts of torture;
and as far as the public, law, and academia are concerned—the case is closed. But
as my friend and colleague in philosophy, Professor John McDermott is fond of
saying: “The world does not speak in Aristotelian clarity.” Clarity is dangerous,
because it closes the doors of perception. Genuine perception of an event or an
issue must include the elements which lie on the fringes of consciousness and on
the peripheries of what is seemingly known. Dr. Ryan Ashley Caldwell researched,
analyzed, and wrote this book on Abu Ghraib in the spirit McDermott describes,
as he was, and remains one of her mentors. McDermott’s approach is a remnant
of a distinguished tradition in philosophy and sociology that dates back to the late
1880s, the era of William James, Emile Durkheim, and other classical theorists
who laid the groundwork for discovering and re-discovering the social world. My
own mentor, David Riesman, similarly advised his students that the social world
as well as social theory must be re-discovered continuously.
This is because the bulk of our “discoveries” about the social world and
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which are disseminated by the information media and the Internet more quickly
and thoroughly than previous generations could have imagined. Discussions are
thereby closed before they have a chance to be opened. The moment that the White
House labeled the accused soldiers in the Abu Ghraib drama as “rotten apples”—
the designation that made its way around the world in a matter of seconds—their
fates were sealed, and the full horizon of possible explanations for the scandal
was closed with the exclusive focus on them, and not their superiors or their
social environment. One must re-discover the original truths, which the media’s
“discovery” of the scandal obfuscated for generations to come. Thus, Dr. Caldwell
analyzes court documents and the ROT for the accused soldiers. This seemingly
obvious step in the research process—to examine the actual, sworn testimonies
of the accused and of witnesses—is not obvious at all. It is shocking that in our
digitalized, information-laden age, there is no central repository in existence for
the ROT. By law, the ROT are public documents, but are not truly accessible
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Caldwell was a member of the defense teams of two of the soldiers charged in the
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access to them and to other witnesses, as well as their attorneys, their trials, and
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to precious information such as the ROT which eluded the media and society’s
opinion-makers.
I shall not review here the genuine discoveries Dr. Caldwell makes and shares
in this book. What is striking is her curiosity, scrupulous attention to detail, and
sensitivity to what various actors actually said about the abuse, command climate,
and social climate at Abu Ghraib—as well as how they said what they said. The
facts she lays out challenge existing preconceptions which have been frozen into
dogma: The court-martialed female soldiers did not strike anyone, and did not
torture anyone. They were convicted mainly for taking and posing in photographs,
under the direction of male superiors. In sum, the convicted female soldiers were
the “fallgirls” or scapegoats for abuse that was orchestrated at the White House and
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the chain of command above them. These real architects of the evils at Abu Ghraib
will most likely never be charged with any crimes.
Worse yet, the center versus the periphery of the Abu Ghraib saga have been
inverted. The government and the media would have one believe that the fallgirls,
and other low-ranking soldiers at Abu Ghraib, were at the center of the abuse,
while the high-level architects remained passive, helpless, and unknowing on the
fringes of the story. The truth is that the seemingly peripheral and high-ranking
characters in this story are the real protagonists and bear the real responsibility not
only for the abuse, but for creating the dysfunctional social climate at Abu Ghraib
which led to and maintained the abuse.
In addition to documenting the full, contextual account of what happened
at Abu Ghraib—including the fringes, margins, and periphery of the received
story—Dr. Caldwell re-discovers the social theories necessary to comprehend
what happened at Abu Ghraib. One should keep in mind that social scientists
do not hold a monopoly on theories for explaining events. Lawyers, journalists,
politicians and other professional groups all draw upon or develop theories to
explain this and other events. Indeed, the prosecution and defense attorneys had
their own, opposing theories at the Abu Ghraib trials regarding key concepts such
as choice, responsibility, procedure, and so on. Lawyers routinely concoct ad hoc
sociologies and psychologies of their own, which would never be accepted without
discussion in academia. Dr. Caldwell’s unique contribution in this volume falls
under the broad umbrella of theories known as feminism and gender studies—
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looks to the neglected margins and periphery of social theory for concepts which
could capture the complexity of the Abu Ghraib drama in a meaningful way.
Thus, she begins with the nearly forgotten distinction made by Talcott Parsons
between instrumental, goals-means functions (ascribed to males) and expressive
functions (ascribed to females). Most contemporary feminists seem to assume that
this is a sexist distinction which no longer applies to contemporary society. But
Dr. Caldwell argues convincingly that this distinction still operates in the U.S.
military, and thereby opens up new vistas for understanding. A brief summary of
her discoveries would be that the fallgirls were exploited by the male commanders
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precisely because they were female, and would thereby heighten the shame
experienced by male Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib. She calls this the instrumental
use of expressive torture.
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twisted use of homoerotic, sexual, and gender-based, expressive themes in
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theoretical perspective is that the sexual perversion at Abu Ghraib can no longer
be dismissed as the aberrant behavior of a few individuals. Rather, this climate of
perversion was the product of carefully-crafted interrogation “techniques” which
aimed at the misuse of gender, expressive functions, and sexuality for the purposes
of torture. Additionally, Dr. Caldwell walks the reader through other peripheries of
social thought, including that of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Jean Baudrillard,
among others, in an attempt to understand the spectacle of Abu Ghraib.
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