More US war crimes
An article in Salon points to US kidnapping of the families of Iraqi detainees as a way we have tried to gain intelligence.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has until 5 p.m. Friday to hand over a raft of documents to Congress that might shed new light on detainee abuse in Iraq. The documents could substantiate little-known allegations that U.S. forces have tried to break terror suspects by kidnapping and mistreating their family members.Unfortunately, I'm afraid this period of life in our country will go down in history with that of Nazi Germany in its level of disregard for human rights. And, we don't even have the excuse of believing in a "master race" ... or do we?
posted by walldon | 9:20 AM
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"Master race"? Well, apart from the white supremacists who anchor GWB's right wing, probably not. I think the appeal to master race is meant to construct some sort of ethical argument, however bizarre and repulsive. (That is, "we [whoever we may be] are the Masters and so have the right and even the obligation to subjugate you.")
But in these post-modernist days, it is enough to say "it is in our ____ [fill-in the blank: national, corporate, personal] self interest to do this", and this allows us to do whatever we can get away with. (Macht macht rechts, or however it went in German, may also have been a Nazism, of course.)
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