# Western Values
Fresh from the 'no shit' department, the byline for this BBC article on the new Abu Ghraib photos says:
The pictures that are cropping up all over are really disturbing, but hey. We gotta put this in perspective. Us Westerners aren't barbarians like the Middle Eastern hordes, dammit. At least we have the decency to commit our atrocities by proxy, and if you don't actually have blood on your hands, then you don't really have blood on your hands, do you?
Besides. Every time a naked, hooded Muslim is traumatised by a guard dog, Jesus smiles. And God reserves a special bit of Freedom-loving sunshine, every day, for Gitmo.
US fears new images could fuel global anti-American feelingSo says the Pentagon. Which is funny, because every time someone suggests that US foreign policy might have some kind of influence on anti-US sentiment in the Middle East, it's dismissed as the rantings of uppity ignant Muslims or hand-wringing defeatist fag libruls.
The pictures that are cropping up all over are really disturbing, but hey. We gotta put this in perspective. Us Westerners aren't barbarians like the Middle Eastern hordes, dammit. At least we have the decency to commit our atrocities by proxy, and if you don't actually have blood on your hands, then you don't really have blood on your hands, do you?
Besides. Every time a naked, hooded Muslim is traumatised by a guard dog, Jesus smiles. And God reserves a special bit of Freedom-loving sunshine, every day, for Gitmo.
File under: politiek : {2006.02.16 21:08}
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