Arto, Your reasons for leaving this community are as thoroughly immoral as those you claim are driving you away. One assumes that the treatment of the Iraqi prisoners to which you object results from them simply being Iraqis, guilt by association. You are seriously telling us that you no longer wish to be part of our lute community simply because many of us are American and British, likewise guilt by association. This is a typical example of stereotyping, as carried out by the Nazis, Communists, and indeed the fanatics who were responsible for the WTC attack and many other acts of barbarity.
By assuming that you know how we feel about the goings-on in Iraq you pretend to a knowledge you do not have. And even worse, you either infer that we all agree with such things, or simply find that being in the company of Americans and British people is beneath the dignity of a man from a continent which produced Auschwitz, the Gulags, the Inquisition, and countless other horrors in its history. Your 'protest' is not only meaningless, but the act of a person in some ways even worse than those soldiers you disapprove of. If education, music, the arts and sciences have any value over and above themselves, then it surely ought to include the ability to think clearly and refrain from primitive and insulting insinuations, let alone condemning two entire nations for the deeds of a few of their citizens. What you have done with your empty gesture is thus the ultimate betrayal, the first in a series of steps that led to Auschwitz and the denial of humanity for the sake of arcane and misconceived beliefs. TB --
