Friday, June 18, 2004

Out of Abu Ghraib photos already?

Been awhile since any new batch of pictures leaked, but of course it's only a matter of time. Since it has become a given that American TV and newspapers will run any and all such pictures of American criminals mistreating Iraqi prisoners, I have to ask when it will become routine for our newspapers to show what the enemy does with our prisoners? And I'm not referring to the blindfolding and making them read statements -- I mean the butchering.

Wouldn't that be evenhanded? Wouldn't that be "fair?" I'm not even asking that the deeds of the enemies' renegades be shown -- I'm only asking to see what their so-called "soldiers" do openly, as a matter of routine practice. What is the motivation for covering that up? Are we not in the media age of the Aaron Brown standard, "You don't appreciate what happened... until you see it?" Well let's see it then, you sanctimonious bastards!

Of course this is not my sincere hope. My sincere hope would be for an actual, firm media standard applied equally to the coalition and the enemy. Under such standards, the nature of Islamofascism would be plain to all. But to persistently hype the illegal actions of perverts-in-uniform while burying the brutality of Arabs against westerners and each other demonstrates an utter lack of standards or worse: namely, the standard of seeking to undermine our willingness to combat barbarism.

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