Friday, May 14, 2004
SHAME AND INSANE CRUELTY
I've been ruminating for days on the horror and shame of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal. How much impact should it have on my support for the war in Iraq?
Then the Zarqawi beheading of Nicholas Berg... It's turning out that Berg's family were opponents of the war and Berg himself was probably a naive idealist and perhaps almost a friend to the Islamists. Of all the people to kill (it seems only for being Jewish) and of all the ways to kill him, Zarqawi couldn't have done more to rekindle my support for the war.
It's disgusting that some of our soldiers did what they did in Abu Ghraib, and justice needs to be done. But Zarqawi did all that was necessary to ensure I wouldn' waver in my support for the war. Here's a piece at Reason magazine that expresses my feelings on the subject.
GB, THHotA
posted by Greg 8:36 PM
