posted on May 13, 2004 01:16:37 PM new
Driving home for lunch a while ago, I tuned in to hear what was going on on the conservative talk radio channels. And of course the Iraqi abuse scandal was the topic of debate. The commentator & his phone-in public were going on and on and on about how badly Saddam had treated his people, and the videos & pictures of that that are available. They were saying (as I've heard other people say) that what our people had done was nothing compared to that and so shouldn't really be considered as abuse or made that much of.
As I ate my lunch, it occured to me that this POV is analogous to a man saying, when criticized for slapping his wife: "Well, her first husband beat the crap out of her, and I only slap her around once in a while, so it's OK!"
I've heard a lot of stupid comments along that same line. I think for the most part, people don't want to believe we are doing this. It's better to try and excuse it than to accept it. It's not acceptable behavior for anyone. If God is keeping notes, he'd better have one large notebook.
posted on May 13, 2004 03:17:45 PM new
I think for the "most part" it's hard for most people to get worked up over nude pyramids, doggie leashes, and the hints of a couple of worse incidents compared to systematic torture, beheadings, raping of wives to death in front of their husbands and the like.
posted on May 13, 2004 03:43:46 PM newI think for the "most part" it's hard for most people to get worked up over nude pyramids, doggie leashes, and the hints of a couple of worse incidents
And that was just the Clinton years in the White House.
"The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry. You can understand why — with two positions on every issue, he has twice as many people mad at him." —Jay Leno
