NationStates Jolt Archive

There are at least six thousand topics on the Iraqi prisoner abuse. I haven't yet seen one person say it was a good thing. Sure, they might have qualified it with some excuse, but no one has said it is right. So we're all in agreement, oui? By continuing that running rant all we do is expand the divide. But what divide is there? Those who think heads should roll, and those that think heads should roll despite certain 'qualifactions'. Some will say that they need to inform us all of the abuse. To be honest, how can we get away from it?

There have been a hellacious amount of threads about the decapitation of Nick Berg. I haven't yet seen one person say it was a good thing. Sure, they might have qualified it with some excuse, but no one has said it was right. So just what do we get done with all those rants? Well, we do get to see the Arabs either play it down or offer their own 'qualifacations'. So the American government offers qualifactions for the prisoner abuse, and the Arab world offers qualifications for the decapitation. Well, I guess they cancel each other out, don't they?

These vain arguments get us nowhere.

Side A does wrong and tries to justify it.

Side B does wrong and tries to justify it.

Side A judges Side B by its worst specimens.

Side B judges Side A by its worst specimens.

Do you get the point, or should I go on?