jihadunspun.com, Canada
These were real events and, as such, people should never forget them. This is a subject that is personal to me, and I will not let it go, because since I suffered the same treatment in Chile under Pinochet. However, these images have not unveiled anything new in the conduct of the invading soldiers. The practice of what the United States does and in the past has done, is once again remarkably obvious and normal. Anyone who had the misfortune of experiencing torture is always reluctant to talk about it as a kind of elemental modesty. But not one of them will ever be silent if they have to denounce it when they see it happening to someone or somewhere else.
Torture, wherever it is taking place, is always done with the total knowledge – therefore tacit approval – of those in command. There are no innocent people involved, nor are there ambiguities that would allow commanders to assume ignorance of what the troops do. And if we are talking about United States soldiers, then those responsible for the torture become even more repugnantly evident. Yanks, when they do not want to talk directly about things, call it by a different name: thus, they talk of ‘a culture of war’, and unfortunately for some of us, we learnt what that that meant torture as another branch of US foreign policy.
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