May 14, 2004

UN and Iraq

Churches respond to Iraq Prisoner Scandal

Ok, we screwed up big time. People serving in our military committed atrocities. But I've got one question for those insisting this is just cause for leaving the UN in charge.

Remember Srebenica?

Posted by Joel Fuhrmann at May 14, 2004 11:09 PM
Comments

Isn't a bit much to use the word "atrocities"?

Posted by: Roy Jacobsen at May 17, 2004 11:09 AM

Yeah, I suppose it is, when compared with other events such as at Srebenica, or in the same prision when Saddam Hussein was in power, as indicated by an article in National Review today, which actually uses the word "atrocities" to describe what happened in the prison back then.

So, I'll say we did wrong, but it's not the moral equivalent of the worst that ever happened there.

Posted by: Joel Fuhrmann at May 17, 2004 09:48 PM