Oprah Cannot “Save” Us
Obama in detainee abuse photos U-turn
A degree of common sense appears to be prevailing. The campaigning is over: as president now he has actual real responsibility. Indeed, there should not have been the need for a “U-turn,” because he should never have headed in that direction in the first place.
For consider this:
Exhibit “A”:
The remains of some 90 murdered U.S. POWs, massacred shortly after their capture December 17, 1944 by the German 1st SS Panzer Division near Malmedy, Belgium. Photograph taken where they had fallen, during their recovery January 14, 1945, after U.S. forces recaptured the area. (National Archives)
Exhibit “B”:
During the Dachau concentration camp liberation, April 29, 1945, after finding inmate bodies stuffed into boxcars by the hundreds, and other horrors, enraged U.S. troops summarily shot between 30-50 surrendered SS guards. U.S. military censors did not permit this photo to be published at the time. (National Archives)
Exhibit “C”:
Leipzig, Germany, late April 1945. Surrendering German snipers are punched and kicked by a U.S. soldier. U.S. military censors did not permit these photos to be published at the time. (Robert Capa)
What else went on? More than we can possibly imagine. Mostly unphotographed.
It is called war. It is vulgar and murderous, and has always been so. However, now we have an administration which apparently believes that we may somehow “cleanse” ourselves of the filth through a one-sided airing of OUR “dirty laundry.”
Presumably while also bursting into guilty tears as if sitting on Oprah’s couch.
Not years afterwards, but now. All in the presence of the current ever-watching enemy. And with (especially in Afghanistan) the war still being fought.
It is absolutely incredible. Maybe some perspective is seriously required? Within this batch of photos, according to the Telegraph:
…They include a prisoner pushed up against a wall as military guards or interrogators appear to threaten to sexually assault him with a broomstick; female soldiers posing with hooded, shackled prisoners who were stripped naked and hooded prisoners on transport planes with Playboy magazines opened to pictures of nude women on their laps…
Sorry? That’s in the same league? Where are the mass machine-gunnings against walls?
EVERY photo stemming from this conflict which eventually “somehow” enters the public domain because of the supposed urgent need to “reveal” the extent of “abuse” along the lines of that in Exhibit “C” above, should cause Americans to demand absolute balance. Our at times borderline traitorous (a word that has NEVER before been used by this blog) media should have its collective feet held to the fire always to juxtapose each with one of Americans and our allies (both military and civilian) having been slaughtered by others of that same enemy. As in “A” above.
Or as in “D” just next:
Exhibit “D”:
A war correspondent looks at the body of a child, one of 93 Belgian civilians shot by members of the German 1st SS Panzer Division in Stavelot, Belgium, December, 1944.
Or produce concrete evidence that the U.S. today routinely engages in the likes of Exhibit “B” above.
(NOTE: WWII references are always required because it is the only war our august media today even vaguely understands.)
