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February 02, 2007
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss...
George Orwell once wrote an essay about being an occupation officer in Burma.
I perceived in this moment that when the white man turns tyrant it is his own freedom that he destroys. He becomes a sort of hollow, posing dummy, the conventionalized figure of a sahib. For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life in trying to impress the "natives," and so in every crisis he has got to do what the "natives" expect of him. He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.
Saddam Husein famously had rape rooms, rooms into which men would be forced to watch their loved ones raped. We have kept Abu Ghraib open. We ought not be shocked to read that rape is commonplace among the soldiers stationed there...
I pray that this is a hoax. But people are people. If the bad guys are capable of being inhuman, so are we. Their inhumanity was a monstrous evil. Our is causing us to lose this war. For the sake of the Terror War, we need to leave Iraq...
Posted by Andrew at February 2, 2007 09:54 AM