Writing of the Abu Ghraib atrocities, The Washington Post’s Philip Kennicott said on May 5: “Armies are made of individuals. Nations are made up of individuals. Great national crimes begin with the acts of misguided individuals; and no matter how many people are held directly accountable for these crimes, we are, collectively, responsible for what these individuals have done. We live in a democracy. Every errant smart bomb, every dead civilian, every sodomized prisoner, is ours.”
We really have to get this. Not only the decision to start this war, but all its revealed atrocities, are our responsibility. The buck stops with each and every one of us who has ever voted or paid taxes.
So what will your response be? Can you do just one proactive thing today, to help correct our abhorrent collective course?
Vip Short
Eugene
