We've all heard on the news details of the photos taken of prisoners in Iraq by American soldiers.  I've heard so many comments about why the soldiers would do such a thing.  It's been explained as an abuse of power, lack of training and discipline but, I think it's much more simple than that.  You don't really need to be trained to "do the right thing" when one of the main principles the country is grounded on a belief in God and the bible.  Do onto others as you would have them do onto you is not unknown to those people who committed this terrible crime.  I think it is simple the lack of American entertainment that is driving the soldiers to these acts. 

If you turn to any cable t.v. program you will see many programs that contain the same type of content that is either shown, or eluded to during the viewing.   We are a t.v. generation statistically and spend most of our free hours in front of the boob tube or the computer.  The soldiers have been away from the one thing that we take for granted and that's the entertainment we have available 24 hours a day.  These men and women have been separated with an activity that they took for granted and are probably experiencing withdrawls from not having it available at the whim now.  This separation anxioty is increased by the fact that they have been over there longer than originally planned.