The Daily Reid: Lawless America

A federal judge has found the regime in criminal contempt for disappearing an immigrant to an El Salvador gulag. But who will enforce his ruling?

We have long been a nation with violent instincts. In 2003, U.S. troops grinned for photos as they tortured Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, during a war we should never have been in. And those were just some of the abuses undertaken in our name.

U.S. soldiers posing with exploited prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Photos from Zoom Historical / Alamy.com

White families brought their children to lynchings in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and often took ho…