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Unbearable Reflections In "Their Humiliation, and America's" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib forced Americans "to see ourselves as the world sees us"?as oppressors without respect for other countries' citizens, their culture or history. I don't believe that Americans are that...
Gibbs chose the right word to describe the effect of the prison-abuse scandal: humiliation. Some photo images find the retina of the heart and never go away: the fallen G.I.s on Omaha Beach on D-day, the napalmed girl in Vietnam and the collapse of the World Trade Center...
I understand Gibbs' lament that we Americans are losing our moral authority, but as a Vietnam veteran, I want to tell people that the real problem is the evil of war. When we follow in lockstep behind an Administration that has rained down high-tech death on thousands of innocent...
In "Their Humiliation, And Ours" [May 17], essayist Nancy Gibbs wrote that the pictures from Abu Ghraib had painfully forced Americans "to see ourselves as the world sees us"--as oppressors without respect for other countries' citizens, their culture or history. I don't believe that Americans are that way...
Gibbs chose the right word to describe the effect of the prison-abuse scandal: humiliation. Some photo images find the retina of the heart and never go away: the fallen G.I.s on Omaha Beach on D-day, the napalmed girl in Vietnam and the collapse of the World Trade Center...