Thursday, June 22, 2006

Just a run-of-the-mill atrocity

As a nation of laws, our military has and continues to take appropriate action against U.S. soldiers who may be found, through proper legal proceedings, to have engaged in serious misconduct in Iraq. This is as it should be. But somehow we seem to write off the barbarity and lawlessness of enemy combatants with a dismissive shrug of our shoulders, as if such deeds were amoral acts of nature.

They are not.


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