Gautam Mukunda wrote:
> That aside, I have to say that I find myself virtually
> incapable of thinking about this rationally. I am
> _quivering_ with rage about this. This is personal to
> me. I volunteered to go there almost a year ago.
> _Two weeks ago_ they called me to say that my security
> clearance was being processed and that a final offer
> might be imminent. Just by _volunteering_ I probably
> did permanent damage to my career at McKinsey, which
> was not a small thing to give up. These fucking
> idiots have permanently stained the effort of every
> one of my friends over there, of every _person_
> working there in both the army and the civilian
> service. If the army decided to shoot them in the
> main street of _Baghdad_ I wouldn't be upset.
At the risk of drawing a lot of fire from all quarters:
It occurred to me that perhaps the thing to do is to identify all the
people who participated in the torture-for-amusement, and turn them over
to the Iraqi people.
Some sort of justice (or at least poetic justice) would be served, and
it would be a hell of a deterrent against anyone else doing anything
remotely like it for a good, long time.
Julia
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