[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.

[NZerFromHK]

I should say that I don't like the abuse, and I think those that are found guilty must be punished. BUT it is dumb to say that all this is Bush's fault, and even dumber to blame all this on the whole nation of the United States and everyone associated with it from George Washington right up to Joe Average.