The Enemy At Home (2007)
“For many Americans this statement may seem surprising. After all, Abu Ghraib is widely associated with prisoner abuse, lack of accountability, and torture. Once the scandal erupted in April 2004, with lurid photographs showing U.S. soldiers degrading and humiliating Iraqi prisoners, the American media portrayed the incident as a textbook case of the abuses of empire.
As many liberals saw it, the images of Abu Ghraib—Private Lynndie England leading an Iraqi man on a leash, naked Iraqi prisoners ...stacked into a human pyramid, captives being forced to masturbate in a public corridor, and so on—demonstrate the Bush administration’s arrogant indifference to the misuse of power. As Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth, puts it, “We’ve been offered a window into the realm of government decision-making having to do with interrogation and torture.” Anthony Lewis saw Abu Ghraib as symptomatic of “the abandonment of America’s commitment to human rights at home and abroad.” Seymour Hersh traced “the roots of Abu Ghraib”MoreLess
As many liberals saw it, the images of Abu Ghraib—Private Lynndie England leading an Iraqi man on a leash, naked Iraqi prisoners ...stacked into a human pyramid, captives being forced to masturbate in a public corridor, and so on—demonstrate the Bush administration’s arrogant indifference to the misuse of power. As Mark Danner, author of Torture and Truth, puts it, “We’ve been offered a window into the realm of government decision-making having to do with interrogation and torture.” Anthony Lewis saw Abu Ghraib as symptomatic of “the abandonment of America’s commitment to human rights at home and abroad.” Seymour Hersh traced “the roots of Abu Ghraib”MoreLess
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