Right wing morality
Various leading conservative and other right wing commentators on the torture
done by US soldiers at Abu Ghraib:
Frankly, it all sounded only slightly worse than the inititiation ceremony my classmates and I had to endure when we tried to join a secret club at my snooty all-girls? high school.
Charlotte Allen of the Independent Women’s Forum
And why is the behavior depicted in the photos so appalling to liberals? If the behavior had been voluntary, liberals would call it free speech.
George Neumayr, editor of the American Spectator
Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the skull and bones initiation and we?re going to ruin people?s lives over it and we?re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I?m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?
THE VALUE OF AN EXAMPLE:
North Korea, probably the world’s most secretive and isolated nation, has offered an olive branch to the US by promising never to sell nuclear materials to terrorists, calling for Washington’s friendship and saying it does not want to suffer the fate of Iraq.
Hmm.
UPDATE: Tim Blair: “Maybe it was those prison photographs that scared ’em.”