You know everyone the world over is talking about those pictures of the Iraqi prisoners. Yes they're gruesome and disgusting and they make me sick to my stomach, but hello? People have to be real idiots if they think this sort of thing isn't happening in every other prison, during every other armed conflict.
But people are so quick to blame, and I'm not saying the Bush Govt isn't responsible, hell yes they are! Heads should roll, Rumsfeld should step down!Thse responsible should be court-martialed! But it's important to take two steps back and contemplate, why this happened.
What on earth happened to those soldiers to turn them into the monsters they've now been hailed as? How could any decent human being resort to doing something so depraved? So what changed?
The answer to this question is unfortunately, War.
War has the ability to corrupt the purest of beings, it can convert a sweet, peace seeking mind to an angry, frustrated demon, one that has no sense of scruples, one that will do anything to express the monster that lies within.
This is why above all other reasons, I was opposed to the war.Ofcourse, there were no WMD's (duh ), ofcourse the invasion was unjust, and uncalled for.
But the really the thing that I was most afraid of was the thing that has come to pass. I was afraid of what it would turn people into.
So when I'm arguing with friends about the War in Iraq ( i'm against) , people never get the fact, that all other things aside, war, except in the most extreme cases never does any good.
I'm not being a wimp, I'm not being naive, I'm simply saying there are other ways to deal with the problems of the world. And I'm afraid to say that by the time people realise this, it's going to be a little too late.