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mr. mephisto,
well, i can sympathize (and even share) in the ideas you presented... but i think such an intellectually honest approach is very very rare.
when you hear about a child porn ring being busted in australia... do you rip your clothes and pour ashes on your head, lamenting the idea that the world will now think of all australians as pederasts? and yet, the percentage of abusers at these prisons relative to the whole department of defense is probably less than the percentage of sexual predators in any country. there are awful things done in all corners of the world... yet there are so many who demand that we engage in ritual suicide a hundred times over for the abuses at abu graib (and the like).
the military promised a full investigation, people are being held accountable, and people across the political arena acknowledge that this is incredibly rare. what more can be done? what more should be done?
i'm telling you all... what drives this story is not a sincere desire for justice, it's the satisfaction of a sickness that infects a large percentage of the western world. it's the self-destructive disease of self-loathing. it encourages this self-hate in such a sensational way... it's as if the actual events were welcome to many. they are not revolted by the abuses, they are vindicated by them. it's not that justice be done, it's so they can reinforce their preconceived notion that western ideals are corrupt and hypocritical.
i say that if you really believe in your heart that the abuses are as rare as you give lip service too, then quietly watch for justice to be done. if justice is not satisfactory, then give the U.S. military (or, the british in this case) hell, but not until then. i'll tell you what gives succor to our enemies, it's the continuous self-lashing that only justifies the lashing we receive from the propaganda machines of islamic fundamentalists. the sick voyeurists are only worsening the situation with their insatiable requests for self-immolation. they are killing our men and women out there.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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