Why I don't feel too bad about the 'abuse' of Iraqi prisoners:

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Being as bad as bad people is not something to be proud of and is not an excuse for being bad.

I agree.

But that doesn't begin to apply to this situation. We stripped and humiliated some hardcore criminals. We never once took an innocent civilian, made him cite a reading, name his family, and behead him on video.

What our people did was reprehensible, yes. But it doesn't even begin to compare to what these people did in this video. That was thousands of miles beyond reprehensible.

Yet, (and sadly, I'm not surprised at all by this), there is no outrage over this. The Arabs and Americans both get outraged by the humiliation of a handful of prisoners, but those same people are silent when the Arabs do things like this. Like, it's okay for them to do this, or something. Like what we did was worse, or something. That is so untrue. Now, of course, I expect them to be silent. Their fucked-up culture lives for this sort of thing.

Why isn't our media in an uproar? Why are we hotly demanding the heads of Rumsfeld and others but no one seems to be nearly as disgusted by this sort of inhuman butchery?

I don't think for a moment this excuses us for what those soldiers did. But, at the same time, I don't think what our soldiers did excuses them either. I swear, we are fighting this war the wrong way. Fucking political correctness and world opinion. I almost think we should go in and fucking terrorize them a bit. There is a savage part of me that would love to see them get this in return. Obviously, that's my anger speaking... but my anger is just as directed at the Americans who are not outraged over this the way they are over ourselves. The apologists, the enemy within.