Upon reading about the bloodied victims staggering toward safety following the terrorist bombing in London, I had a chance to recall the recent displays of righteous indignation from mostly US senators -- mostly Democrats -- at reports that prisoners in Guantanamo Bay were being subjected to sleep depravation. I myself was very apprehensive at how awful it must have been for those poor terror suspects to not even be afforded the chance to eat a properly cooked meal.
My thoughts subsequently wandered off toward recollections of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and I experienced a renewed sense of shock at the thought of US soldiers actually daring to place a pair of panties on a prisoner's head. Further on I reflected upon the many audacious declarations from progressives in academia intimating a certain empathy for the insurgents' heroic resistance in Iraq.
I thought of the legion utterances from the intellectual Hollywood elite and liberal pundits condemning US President George W. Bush for cautioning that terrorism not be treated as the mere nuisance that another presidential hopeful had earlier suggested it was.
Eventually I lulled myself into a peaceful slumber, partly induced by the comforting notion that we are simply witnessing the effects of what is at root, a mere social malady of negligible proportions. Nothing a little therapy and diplomacy wouldn't remedy.
Miguel Guanipa
Whitinsville, Massachusetts
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