I agree. And what is more relativistic than trying to justify terrible behavior by pointing to someone else's completely unrelated behavior? After all, there was no connection between the terrorists from al Qaida who murdered Nick Berg and the Iraqi prisoners.
When you say you don't care that men were injured, raped, sexually assaulted, forced to masturbate, forced to get naked, women were forced to reveal themselves--and you don't want to have a moral responsibility to care about this?
Al Qaida tried to excuse its murder of Berg by claiming it was in retribution for the prison abuse scandal. You want to absolve the criminals of their responsibility for the prison abuse scandal because of what al-Qaida did. You're making the same moral calculations as they are.
We're taking responsibility for those alleged offenses but what I'm saying is they don't come close to the offense of Nick Berg's murder. Right now there's people over there preparing to do and doing bad things to Americans with no concern for retaliation. They're playing the American media for their cause. And what I want them to know is that as far as I'm concerned, I don't care what happens to them.
Every day we're deprived of our humanity by these actions of the so called religion of peace but they're somehow above it. Fine. They can face a day like Nick Berg had and get back to me.
I know that our men and women will never do the them what was done to him but if they think that we're going to allow our enterprise to be hamstrung by DC committees and PC groupthink they're wrong. Somewhere between the "innocent" prisoners and the real bad guys our forces will have to make a choice and in that respect I hope they decide to get information that will end the lives of the terrs and save the lives of the innocent.
Judges, pundits, politicians, and lawyers only get in the way. I trust our grunts to make the right choice.