If it makes you feel any better, when the story of Canadian Peacekeepers' torture and murder of a Somali teenager broke, our media blamed the influence of the US military.
So, you know... it depends which side of the right-left divide you sit on. Someone will take the opportunity to catch their favorite whipping boy or "girlfriends" in the casting of the big blame net.
Not the *NEW* Brawnyman! He's a symbol of racially ambiguous masculine absorbance with broad multi-demographic appeal!
NO WAY MAN! Torture is like frat hazing! And there's *nothing* homosexual about that!