Quote: The worst part about this is how everyone has been making such a huge deal about posing some naked prisoners,...
Hell, some of the hazing that goes on in fraternities is worse than what they did to the prisoners!"
Different cultures have different values placed on different things. In the Middle East a life is not nearly as 'valuable' as one is here. That is why you won't find many people in the Western World likely to strap a bomb to their chest for what they believe in.
Likewise, our culture has lost much of the value of 'honor' and 'respect' and do not understand why dishonorment is practically a self-commuted death sentence for some cultures, even advanced ones like the Japanese.
The acts that were commited against the Iraqi prisoners was "abuse" from our perspective here in the United States. They were atrocities to Islamic Fundamentalists. Atrocities commited by those who are currently occupying your nation. You could do all the good in the world and have it mean nothing at all when you pull [censored] like those soldiers did in that prison.
Islamic Fundamentalism is very 'eye for an eye', but they could not give us equal retribution by doing the same thing to their prisoners as we to ours. If they did the same acts to the contractor that the soldiers to the Iraqi prisoners we'd again see it as no more than abuse. That is not 'eye for an eye'. It is not equal retribution. Killing the man in the worst way possible is the only thing that could equate the same meaning to our society as our abuse was to theirs.
I am in no way condoning the actions of those people. I think it was absolutely horrible and most definitely should not have happened. But you need to view things from another perspective before advocating the "Glass Parking Lot" approach, which is highly akin to the "Final Solution" approach.
