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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Actually, he's got a very fair point -- that the embarrassing abuse of Iraqis garners more outcry in the first world that the killing of Americans. It really clues me in on how few friends the US really has. Our government may be able to jockey alliances and keep an even footing with the countries of Europe, but make no mistake -- those people do not like us. And, it is becoming ever more obvious every day. While we can hypothesize about the reasons behind this and opine as to how to fix it, we should remain open-eyed as to how much of the world is really not at all on our side. The central axiom of any foreign policy is that any nation at any time can be your enemy.
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It's not a fair point. By his logic, what's going on in the Iraqi prisons now is worse than what was going on under Saddam. The reason why the abuse of Iraqis garners more outcry than the killing of Americans isn't that it's done to Iraqis, but that it's done by American soldiers. More is expected from American soldiers than from some terrorists.