Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Video shows beheading of American man. Well, that should handily distract people from arguing about whether Donald Rumsfeld should resign over the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners. And the terrible thing is, the militants are capable of doing this, the general tenor of Iraqi opinion that I've seen in the media comes out like this at best. So there's no need for anti-US conspiracy theorists to speculate about a black-ops team in Iraq working to discredit the Iraqis that are fighting the Occupation. But if this is allowed to distract from the torture issue, or used by numbskulls to justify the torture, that will be the true tragedy for both the Iraqis and the 'mainly decent' US Army. Brutality must not cancel out brutality.
