[djmcmath]

The issue here isn't even whether Bad Things happened at Abu Ghraib. Let's acknowledge for a moment that some really awful stuff happened there 3 years ago. Let's acknowledge that the people responsible should be judged in an appropriate court of law, and not on the PPOT.

Now let's look at the world picture and see if maybe now is not the best time to try and engrage the Arab world in general and the fanatic Muslims specifically. I mean, right now, we have imams all over the Arab world stirring their followers into a frenzy because a cartoonist on the other side of the continent scribbled some stuff they disagree with.* People are getting killed in riots in Pakistan -- still -- the furor won't die down! Now we've got journalists in this country digging up the bones of Abu Ghraib from 3 years ago ... what, are they trying to start a war? Sure, free speech an' all, but don't they have some sense of timing?

Dan



*The latest conspiracy theory notes that the cartoons actually shown in Arab countries are clearly not all from the Danish cartoonist. For example, a caricature of Muhammed being f----ed by a dog has some theorists suggesting that the whole show is an effort by a tiny minority of radical Muslims to enrage all of Islam against the West.