[lit-ideas] The torture graph
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 20:17:47 -0700
Lawrence wrote:
If you put all the world’s torture of the past ten years into a graph,
what do you think it would look like? Wouldn’t that graph look largely
Muslim green? Of course it would. Now look at that little sliver of
non-green down there. That’s the combined torture committed by the
British and American forces combined. Why is it that so many
Lit-Idears want to talk about that tiny sliver and not about the rest of
the graph?
Never mind that no evidence is offered to support the greening of the
graph: I'm concerned about (although I don't particularly want to talk
about it here) what's done by US (and British) forces because I'm a US
citizen who cares what his government does, ostensibly in his name, and
I'm dismayed and concerned by the lack of accountability my government
has shown and by the secrecy that it invokes when questioned about what
it's up to. I don't have a voice in 'Muslim' affairs. I'm supposed to
have one in virtue of my citizenship (not to mention my age).
Robert Paul
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