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The Show Must Go On
Surely, we are angry at the cheerleader analogy, we are angry at what happened in Abu Ghraib. But outrageous remarks and analogies will keep coming in this show; they will add further insult to Americans and they will make every attempt to focus our anger solely on this soldier - to promote a much needed scapegoat.
Anger tends to blind us. If we are not angry, we may start calling indictments at higher levels.
The defense lawyer will keep asking questions except for a simple one: - who foster an environment to allow what happened in Abu Ghraib to happen. A few bad apples might still do what they did but they would not take pictures. The fact that these pictures were taken openly and that they had taken their time to stage numerous photos ops only confirmed that these “few bad apples” knew that their actions were acceptable. They understood the “order”1.
Sorry son. It’s a matter of national interest. The buck has to stop somewhere but it certainly can’t be anything higher.
Enjoy your stay. It’s inevitable.
fn1 thousands of pages of military reports and documents released under the Freedom of Information Act to the American Civil Liberties Union in the past few months have demonstrated that the abuse involved multiple service branches in Afghanistan, Iraq and Cuba, beginning in 2002 and continuing after Congress and the military had begun investigating Abu Ghraib.
Posted on January 12, 2005 12:14 PM
Categories: The Ugly
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