Quote Originally Posted by Goofball
The problem with the book flushing is that it gives the Taliban ammo to stir up hatred in the rest of the more moderate population.
Yup, they've found a propaganda theme that reverberates throughout the muslim world because it's not a 'political', but a purely religious issue. Maybe if the Pentagon had demonstrated the same sort of outrage over the Abu Ghraib incidents right from the start, instead of waiting till the truth came out despite its efforts to play them down, the ground wouldn't have been so fertile for these groups. After killing over two dozen detainees, wrapping one in an Israeli flag, telling others to pray so they could be kicked in the back of the head, forcing them to masturbate and smearing them with 'menstruation' blood -- practises that remind one of the SA concentration camps in 1930's Germany -- the U.S. shouldn't be surprised at the ease with which this report brought people out onto the streets. Oh, and the problem won't just disappear if we call the demonstrators 7th century psychopaths.