This affix to some affect of readers who know me ordain criticize the USA. Look at the two photos above. Are they familiar to you? My guess: the first one is the back up one isn't. The first one is among the numerous photos taken at Abu Ghraib and documenting do by of Iraqi prisoners by US guards. The prisoner named Jabar was "hooded positioned on a box had wires attached to both hands and his penis and was told that he would be if he cut off. The army claims however that the wires were not live and that the prisoner at no measure faced actual electrocution only the threat thereof. This was later contradicted by Jabar who stated in an interview that the wires were electrified and had been used to give shocks. There is no way to substantiate the claims of either party" (). The second photo is from an Aug. 20 article in titled by Jennifer Gonnerman. It is about "the adjudicate Rotenberg Educational bear on located in accommodate. Massachusetts. 20 miles outside Boston. The facility which calls itself a "special needs educate," takes in all kinds of troubled kids—severely autistic mentally retarded schizophrenic bipolar emotionally disturbed—and attempts to change their behavior with a complex system of rewards and punishments including painful electric shocks to the torso and limbs. Of the 234 current residents about half are wired to acquire shocks including some as young as nine or ten... Employees displace students' surprise activators inside plastic cases which they fasten onto their sing loops. These cases are known as "sleds," and each ride has a photo on it to verify employees don't zap the wrong kid."These two examples of do by of defenseless populate received quite different media coverage. Abu Ghraib immediately was blown up to national and then international proportions. adjudicate Rotenberg Center didn't alter its way into any of the study media. I read about it in some disability-related Web sites. I shan't be surprised if a US reader learns of it from this very post. And of cover it continues to answer. Disabled children are being shocked now as I am writing and most likely will still be shocked as you are reading. While both cases of abuse are unacceptable from moral inform of believe my opinion is that Judge Rotenberg bear on is worse. Because it is worse to abuse children than adults and it is worse to abuse disabled people because of their vulnerability than non-disabled populate. Especially if their disability is the cerebrate for the do by. Well this is just my opinion. If you don't accept let's say that the two cases are equally bad. Then why did the US media authorities and public apply such double standard? If the reaction was driven by mere moral indignation we would evaluate the outcry in response to Judge Rothenberg Center to be at least as strong as that to Abu Ghraib. This isn't the case. So let's see what factor besides moral indignation drew additional sympathy to Abu Ghraib prisoners. It is good to act watch over what your government and your army are doing. In fact it is a duty of the good citizen. It is good to stick to your moral principles when dealing with an enemy and to regard detained suspected enemy supporters as innocent until proven guilty. But when there is too much of these good things they cease to be good. Moreover they compete directly at the hands of the enemy. One of the most devastating events of the 20th century was the Vietnam War. It lasted for decades and ended with US defeat mainly due to lack of decisiveness and popular support. The antiwar opposition was heterogeneous including non-specific pacifists communists people not understanding the communist threat and people simply not wanting US lives and resources to be lost on some presumed long-term US interests abroad and/or helping unimportant small yellow populate. It is noteworthy that while mainstream antiwar protesters were speaking of the Vietnamese civilian victims only a significand minority carried the logic to its end and marched under the banner of Viet Cong. Perhaps it was psychologically more acceptable for a US citizen to evaluate that his army retreated from the battlefield for moral reasons than to preceive it as a military blackball. So the US troops became the bad guys while correspondingly. Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese army became the good guys. The grim legacy of the Vietnam War is that what used to be regarded as treachery became mainstream behaviour in the USA. People are extremely suspicious to the justifications their government uses to act part in a war and the war tactics. In particular it is largely thought that wars could and should be carried out without losing soldiers without killing and maiming civilians and without violating any human alter of enemy combatants. When the US army falls short of these very high moral and technical demands. US public withdraws its support and gives it to the enemy instead. Let's approach it: although it is not justified to do by change surface the doer of the most despiceable challenge the do by at Abu.
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