I hope you don't mind me jumping in (feel free to ignore, if you do) and I'm most certainly not as well-written as hermionesviolin, but I'll give it a shot.
I think that the torture of Iraqis (and others) under Saddam Hussein did affect US citizens. Even if only for the fact that it was a justification for sending US troops (and private entities) to war. If I were the foreign press, I'd jump all over it. Here we sit, the United States, the most powerful and righteous country in the world, ready to condemn anything and everything we don't like or that doesn't mesh with our morals... and our troops are beating, mutilating, raping, and humiliating other human beings.
Maybe it's time to change the name of Freedom Fries back.
I take the US media, in general, with a grain of salt. They're the ones who'll cover Columbine incessantly and barely brush over yet another shooting in an inner-city, mostly minority school. Or the main news story will be about some actor, and there are people starving to death. What people care about isn't necessarily a good thing, because it leaves those very people blind to the world.
But, I guess that means i agree with you. And I'd certainly like to know how to change it, too.
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Date: 2004-05-11 07:45 am (UTC)I think that the torture of Iraqis (and others) under Saddam Hussein did affect US citizens. Even if only for the fact that it was a justification for sending US troops (and private entities) to war. If I were the foreign press, I'd jump all over it. Here we sit, the United States, the most powerful and righteous country in the world, ready to condemn anything and everything we don't like or that doesn't mesh with our morals... and our troops are beating, mutilating, raping, and humiliating other human beings.
Maybe it's time to change the name of Freedom Fries back.
I take the US media, in general, with a grain of salt. They're the ones who'll cover Columbine incessantly and barely brush over yet another shooting in an inner-city, mostly minority school. Or the main news story will be about some actor, and there are people starving to death. What people care about isn't necessarily a good thing, because it leaves those very people blind to the world.
But, I guess that means i agree with you. And I'd certainly like to know how to change it, too.