I'm stealing this quote from Time magazine, but it reflects how I think.
You know that feeling you all had when you saw the pictures from Abu Graib - the disgust that "Americans could do that".
Vast parts of the rest of the world saw you like that BEFORE the pictures came out - the pictures have only intensified the feelings.
In Time, the quote was something along the lines of "forcing Americans to see themselves how the world sees them".
So Kevin, while you might be right in that the US is not the worst perpertrator of torture ever, you're wrong because the standard required of you is so much higher. In particular given you apparently invaded Iraq solely on humanitarian grounds
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