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Perhaps the most devastating essay that VanRamblings has read, reflecting on the ‘meaning’ of the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, as well as in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay, may be found in an essay length article published today in The New York Times.
Susan Sontag, in writing the cover story for the NY Times Magazine, seeks the answer to a number of questions, not the least of which is, Why?
The answer, in part at least, offers an indictment of the ‘either yer for us, or yer agin us’ philosophy that has very much been a part of the Bush administration’s governing raison d’être, dating back to 9/11. As such, suggests Sontag, the contrary administrative world view put forth by the Bush White House has inevitably led to the demonizing and dehumanizing of anyone who declares their interests as contrary to those of the U.S.
