Think about the Future

[bryant69]

Looking at some of the right wing coverage of Abu Ghraib and came across an article entitled "How Should We React to the Prisoner-Abuse Scandal?" The author, one Daniel Jennings, wrote this near the end of his piece. (here's the link, in case you want to read the whole thing --> http://www.insightmag.com/news/2004/05/11/National/Opinion.How.Should.We.React.To.The.PrisonerAbuse.Scandal-680804.shtml He never really gets around to telling us how we should react, but I guess it's implied.)

"This scandal is politics pure and simple, a media event staged to further the political ends of Arabs, Europeans and American leftists opposed to the military adventure in Iraq. The champions of human rights who will hew and haw about the suffering of the Iraqis under American occupation. Of course if these champions of human rights force an American evacuation of Iraq and some Islamic thug regime takes control there and starts murdering hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, the champions of human rights will be silent. Just as the champions of the rights of Vietnamese peasants were no longer heard in 1975 when the communist victors herded 500,000 Vietnamese people into concentration camps after the Vietnam War."

I'm sure you caught the little thread of racism in the article; doesn't sound like this guy believes President Bush's assertion that "brown people" can govern themselves. He also suffers from poor sentence construction.

But strip all that away and it does open a question; should the US withdraw this year or next year, and racial and religious tensions in Iraq lead to violence, what is our next step?

I guess this is thinking four or five moves down the road, and it is fair to say that we have to focus on what we can do, not on what they might do.

Bryant
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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Sorry, I'm not up to deep thinking and analysis today ...

(suffering from depression), but what did catch my eye was "military adventure in Iraq". I just don't remember this as one of the 27 different rationales Bush & Co. gave for invading Iraq. Did they say, "Our military needs a little adventure, so let's go to Iraq"?

[Skittles]

2. Insight is a right wing piece of shit

why do you post such f***ing crap???

[bryant69]

3. Well, I'm trying to push you, Skittles, over the edge

How am I doing?

Seriously though, I looked at it for the website; Insight I rarely read, but Townhall I read pretty regularly and they linked to that article. I didn't have enough to write a piece on it, but I was curious to see the reaction here to it.