On Sunday 2005-02-20 20:36, d.brin wrote: > 2/ Why would our Iraq war "fuel Islamic resentment"? Don't they see > the great things we are doing?
<snip content="examples of abuses"/> I think we did not hear these kinds of stories from Vietnam because we could use the South Vietnamese as cutouts to interrogate war prisoners using physical and psychological stressor. Note that in Algeria, the French enjoyed no such convenient patsy and earned a nasty reputation, in no small part thanks to Fannon. Guards need to be better supervised. If no surrogate can be found, American interrogators need to improve their technique and cover their tracks. They should NOT use American guards as surrogates. > This is the price of empire: Our souls. What souls? Surely the glory of empire is worth a national soul? Empire and glory are real virtues remembered through ages, national souls (if they exist) exist to realize classical collective virtues. Or perhaps we should say it is the realization return to our essential national soul and traditional values. It is this sort of behavior that made America a Great Power. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
