Heads should roll
'The dreadfulness at Abu Ghraib was one scandal, its handling, from the cavalierness with which the military's own investigation was handled to the crass, clumsy spinning by the White House, has been another.'
[T]heir cavalier reaction to a horror that shocked the world should be enough to seal their fate. Thursday, visiting Iraq, Rumsfeld told cheering troops that Americans supported them - true, but beside the point - and to ignore the furor back home as "politics."
The furor caused by this scandal isn't just back home, though, and it's not just "politics" at all. What U.S. soldiers did, under orders and over time, makes the mission of U.S. soldiers throughout the Middle East far more dangerous. So did the reaction by Rumsfeld et al.
The furor caused by this scandal isn't just back home, though, and it's not just "politics" at all. What U.S. soldiers did, under orders and over time, makes the mission of U.S. soldiers throughout the Middle East far more dangerous. So did the reaction by Rumsfeld et al.
- Geov Parrish.
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