Just as Frederick Douglass said about slave owners, the lives of those who perpetrate offenses against others are damaged just as th lives of those against whom they are perpetrated. The New York Times has an article about the now infamous young woman whose picture we can now all recognize. That was one of my first thoughts about these pictures - imagine how they have destroyed the lives of those Americans involved. It makes me wonder what brought them to this point? And it makes one wonder what has happened to others in the military in Iraq. Pacifists often point to the damaging effects of war on the psyche of participants. Unfortunately, we will have another generation of combatatns to examine. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader (as we say in mathematics) whether the prize was worth the cost - your opinion may differ from mine.
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