Comments on: Abu Ghraib Reading http://bowblog.com/2004/05/26/abu-ghraib-reading/ Thu, 17 May 2012 13:19:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stephen Newton http://bowblog.com/2004/05/26/abu-ghraib-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-644 Stephen Newton Wed, 26 May 2004 15:56:27 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=571#comment-644 Hi I think you should read David Aaronovitch's reply in the same paper, yesterday (see Trackback). All best Stephen Hi
I think you should read David Aaronovitch’s reply in the same paper, yesterday (see Trackback).
All best
Stephen

]]> By: Stephen Newton’s diary of sorts... http://bowblog.com/2004/05/26/abu-ghraib-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Stephen Newton’s diary of sorts... Wed, 26 May 2004 15:54:34 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=571#comment-646 <strong>Myth of moral superiority</strong> Continued revelations that US troops torture Iraqi prisoners and that British troops may do the same, seem to divide people into two camps; the shocked and the unsurprised. Meanwhile commentators like the Observer’s David Aaronovitch miss a poi... Myth of moral superiority

Continued revelations that US troops torture Iraqi prisoners and that British troops may do the same, seem to divide people into two camps; the shocked and the unsurprised. Meanwhile commentators like the Observer’s David Aaronovitch miss a poi…

]]> By: David Aaronovitch in the Guardian http://bowblog.com/2004/05/26/abu-ghraib-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-645 David Aaronovitch in the Guardian Wed, 26 May 2004 15:52:12 +0000 http://bowblog.com/?p=571#comment-645 <strong>The trouble with Sontag's story</strong> 'The photos are us," said the cover line for Susan Sontag's G2 essay yesterday. I took this to mean that a much respected writer would demonstrate how the Abu Ghraib pictures told all Americans (and perhaps all Britons too) something about themselves... The trouble with Sontag’s story

‘The photos are us,” said the cover line for Susan Sontag’s G2 essay yesterday. I took this to mean that a much respected writer would demonstrate how the Abu Ghraib pictures told all Americans (and perhaps all Britons too) something about themselves…

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