This woman, Sabrine Al-Janabi, was taken from her home. She was raped multiple times and then beaten before she was raped some more. What devastates me is knowing that we did this. We turned another country into a place where women are regularly pulled from their homes and gang-raped.
Say what?!
I understand that the American left thinks all evil stems from America, but are these people so willfully ignorant that they deny the atrocities of the Hussein regime?
Apparently so.
Me: Um, no. The people who raped her did this. And I guess you don't believe in the rape rooms that where there before, right?
Commenter: Do you really want to go there, sharon? Because then we'd have to ask who provided Saddam with the funds to make those horrors happen as well.
I've always found this to be a weak argument, but it is typical of the blame America first crowd. If we give any foreign aid (and we give a lot), then any abuses are our fault. It would be nice if, instead of constantly blaming America, the left actually blamed the people who perpetrate these crimes. Novel idea, I know.
UPDATE: Later in the comment thread, Shakespeare' Sis said this:
I don't believe that they are personally responsible for an increase in rapes, with the exception of those who actually commit rapes themselves.
That I do agree with.
Let's just assume that Mrs McEwan got caught up in the moment.
ReplyDeleteWho provided the funds for Iraqi rape rooms? Well, if Mrs McEwan drives a car, she did, because Iraq's money came from the sale of oil.
Here's another take on it, from someone who noted that the victims in the current story are Sunnis (who were protected under the old Sunni dictatorship), and the same might not be the case in the Shi'ite regions.
ReplyDeleteThe Sunni triangle isn't a very pleasant place to be right now, no doubt about that. But some of our liberal friends seem to think it was a paradise of peace and freedom before the war.