Reply #4: it would be nice to think someone was being humane

[iverglas]

but it's more likely he was being exploitive, is how I'd read between the lines.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302007/news/nationalnews/treason_rap_gi_abused_stepson_nationalnews_melissa_jane_kronfeld_and_eric_lenkowitz.htm
-- not one's favourite source, but the facts reported seem to be matters of record

April 30, 2007 -- The Army commander who faces a possible death sentence in Iraq on a treason charge has been in legal hot water before - for aggravated child abuse and resisting arrest, The Post has learned.

Lt. Col. William Steele, 51, and his wife lost custody of the wife's then-11-year-old son after a long court battle revealed that the couple denied the boy food and furniture and routinely locked him out of the family home, sources close to the case said.


http://www.andnetwork.com/index?service=direct/0/Home/recent.fullStory&sp=l316031

Lt. Col. Quentin Crank, whose military police unit took over for Col. Steele at Camp Cropper in October 2006, said the gifts were given after Col. Steele had moved on to another assignment in Iraq, but the detainee was outraged by the personal contact and told American officials that Col. Steele was trying to supplant him in the role of father.


If it's what it smells like to me, one might like to see him being charged with something along the lines of abusing the enemy, not aiding it.