Iraq

Very rarely will I make a serious post here, as, well, this is a blog, and you really shouldn't take anything in a blog seriously (unless it's about movies or baseball).

But, of course, this is about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners by US Military Police, and the subsequent beheading on American Nick Berg on video.

First, let me say that every incident involved with these things is absolutely despicable. What really gets to me though is that, all of a sudden, the Iraqis have gone and crossed some imaginary line here, whereas while the Americans treament of prisoners is regrettable, I mean...come on...they're just prisoners. How can you possibly compare two such heinous acts of evil? Neither is better than the other, and neither is worse.

I would also like to point one thing out which I noticed right away - the American soldiers committed all of their acts on their own. There was no way that anyone high up in the chain of command could possibly have ordered such a thing - it was all them, and they will be punished. Yet, according to reports, the masked man who decapitated Nick Berg was Osama bin Laden's second-in-command. Apparently in Arabic, there is no word for "delegation". And I don't mean that in a sarcastic or light way, but in a "Yeah, right, like someone with that much power and importance would risk exposing himself like that; get your head out of your ass Rumsfeld."

Thank you.