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Originally posted by Kostya
Um...
As far as I can tell, you seem to be suggesting that the 'Arabs' have some kind of special moral status which is racially or culturally related? wtf?
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All I'm saying is that if a group of people (i.e. Arab cultures) feel moraly justified in the torture and murder prisoners, and the intentional murder of innocents, then they should get a heaping helping of STFU when they complain that US troops are making prisoners embarassed.
In the last Gulf War, the Iraqis physically tortured and sexually assaulted male and female POW's. We didn't hear a peep from the Arab world about this.
That said, what the US soldiers did was wrong. But there is a tremendous lack of perspective going on here. Homophobic discomfort does not equal electrical shocks to the nutsack.
AND ANOTHER THING...if the reports of the US actually murdering prisoners is true, that is a whole different issue. That is wrong in the highest degree.