America's attempts to appease "world opinion" are depraved and suicidal
By Alex Epstein
It is a testament to the perverse priorities of our politicians and journalists that the biggest American outcry over Abu Ghraib has been not about the gruesome decapitation of American Nicholas Berg by terrorists, but about the fact that many Arabs and Europeans are mad at us.
"We are the most hated nation in the world," laments Ted Kennedy, "as a result of this disastrous policy in the prisons."
The alleged solution to this alleged crisis of "world opinion" is to show more deference toward the rest of the world. Otherwise, we are told, the world's anger will bring more terrorist attacks and less "international cooperation" against terrorism.
All of this evades one blatant truth: the hatred being heaped on America over Abu Ghraib is *undeserved*. Throughout the Middle East, torture--*real* torture, with electric drills and vats of acid--is official policy and daily practice. Yet there are no worldwide condemnations of the dictatorships that practice such atrocities--let alone the Arab-Islamic culture that produces so many torturers. But when, during a war, a handful of American prison guards subject a handful of Iraqi POWs to comparatively mild humiliation--which the U.S. government denounces and promptly investigates--"world opinion" proclaims itself offended and condemns America.
That's not all of it, it's a copyrighted article at their website. Or will be soon. They didn't send me one I could publish myself, but at least I get advance notice.
Update: Ah! I should have known I'd find it here.
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