[NovemberCharlie]

Steyn on Abu Graib, and the media's reaction to it.

[NovemberCharlie]

Ping to the Steyn List, and to your list.

[kesg]

Mark Steyn nails it again.

[John Valentine]

Frisky Fiskie is surely longing for his own leash and master.

Lynndie might be able to make a few extra bucks on her way back to the US if the authorities will just give her a few hours in London and Fisk's phone number.

[Billthedrill]

As for the allegedly seething Arab street, my advice to it would be to lay off the interviews, or at least not to respond to the pictures by saying things like, "They wanted us to feel as though we were women, the way women feel, and this is the worst insult, to feel like a woman." When you imply that being an Arab woman is analogous to perpetual degradation, you remind Americans that being "insensitive" to certain cultures is not necessarily a bad thing.

Nice shot. The leash picture spoke volumes, but it didn't say the same thing to everyone. No one - and this is probably the point - no one knows what it said to Arab women.

[Ruth A.]

Styne bump.

Perhaps it was when Democratic blowhard Joe Biden demanded of Don Rumsfeld: "What did he know and when did he know it?"

Poor, poor Biden can't get out of his plagerism mode.

[Watery Tart]

When you imply that being an Arab woman is analogous to perpetual degradation, you remind Americans that being "insensitive" to certain cultures is not necessarily a bad thing.

I'll see this tomorrow on several femnist websites, right? </sarcasm>

[GungaLaGunga]

Steyn - The world's best liberal bitch-slapper.

[NZerFromHK]

It's all very well for Robert Fisk to assert breezily that one West Virginia woman walking a naked Muslim man round like a dog "smashes to pieces our entire morality." He's an anti-American reporter for a left-wing British newspaper. But Democratic Senators tread that path at their peril...

This is how the whole abuse is played out outside the United States. Non-US newspapers and activists go to a stage call this as a "natural progression" of American attitudes (note: not "conservative" to them). In other words, they claim the whole thing is the legacy right up to the American Founding itself and thinking that ALL Americans are evil and responsible for this (that includes everyone from Noam Chomsky to Pat Buchanan, and certainly Bill Clinton whom many American conservatives assume non-US anti-Americans love him).

Of course the US Democrats can't play that card. The pool of self-loathing left-wingers is extremely shallow in your country, and whoever American said this would have been in the advanced stages of planning to emigrate permanently.