Reality
Now let me see if I've got this straight: the British media, contrary to what appear to be the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of ordinary people in Britain, have been pushing the view that the treatment of the terrorists being held at Camp X-ray is unreasonably cruel and unjustified, amounting, by some accounts, to "torture." Hysterical op-ed after hysterical op-ed has been penned about the affront to human decency caused by hoods, mittens, and other restraining devices designed to prevent the prisoners from turning on their captors (which they had a history of having done, and which some of them indeed actually threatened to do this time.) Even subjecting these men to the rigors of the harsh Carribean climate was presented as an abominable exercise in vindictive cruelty. Another instrument of torture decried by the British media and chatterati was that of subjecting these men to the indignity and humiliation of being photographed, which was seen as beyond the pale for a "civilised" society such as ours is supposed to be.
Meanwhile, the BBC was busily at work recreating the Stanford Prison Experiment as a reality-tv show.
What's that? Irony again?
Posted by Dr. Frank at January 28, 2002 03:35 PM | TrackBack