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Notes & comments: June 2004.(Editorial)
Pursuing moral equivalence
Whatever else can be said about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison, the forces arrayed against the U.S.-led coalition have welcomed the episode as a bonanza. Which forces? We don't mean the vaunted "Arab street"--everyone is still waiting for that Godot--but rather the phalanx commanded by The New York Times, CNN, the BBC, Newsweek, and their satellites and support staff. The kingdom of the fourth estate contracted in one brow of grateful outrage and titillated horror as the photographs of naked Iraqis decorated the nightly news and front pages of newspapers everywhere. "The prisoner scandal has shattered U.S. ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Notes & comments: June 2004.(Editorial)