Deborah Harrell wrote:
I doubt it - you're looking at it through US culture. These things coming to light just gives the enemies of US values more fodder. They don't understand "airing dirty laundry", and they don't see it as a healthy step towards cleansing a problem. (Perhaps because public reaction means nothing in their country?)It is good that these cases are coming to light now; I hope our collective response to these excesses proves to the rest of the world that Americans, as a people, are not 'parochial and obsessed with power.' How we handle such flouting of our own laws may be key to the eventual 'tipping of the scale' by the mostly-still-silent non-Western moderates.
All they see is more injustices coming to light, and more stories of how evil the US is, with no feel for the general disquiet these stories bring out in the average American.
And there are lots of them who feel that way _in_ the US . . .
-- Ronn! :)
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