However, I do think that it is interesting (in fact, necessary) to point out that the "domestic ones" seem to include all too many in the American media.
If there job is to cover the news, then cover it...cover all of it. Cover of it in its excruciating detail.
Don't pick and choose which so-called "attrocities" to cover. Don't pick and choose only the "attrocities" that fit the detractor's agenda and pay scant attention to attrocities that don't.
If the media wants to start throwing the t-word around, then let's have some context of what torture really is.
Torture is not making someone get naked and do a naked human pyramid. Torture is not humiliating someone.
Torture is forcing a man to watch his wife and 8-year old daughter be gang raped, then gouging his eyes out to ensure that was the last thing he ever saw.
Torture is cutting someone's tongue out because you didn't like what they said.
Torture is putting someone into a wood chipper, feet first and slow, just to make sure that they get the full impact of their impending death.
I agree that we should set a high bar, and, as Americans, we do.
But, someone, somewhere has to provide the truth. And, the truth is that while what these soldiers did was heinous and deserves punishment (which they will be getting, by the way), it doesn't even compare to what true torture is.
The American media won't show that. Why? Because it doesn't fit their agenda, plain and simple.
Well, I'm not going to take it anymore.
So, while your explanation is correct and your assessment is accurate, I simply reject the premise that "that's how it has to be". So, I will actively work on exposing the American media for being friends of our enemies.