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May 11, 2004
It's All Tarantino's Fault

Rich Lowry of the National Review sees darker forces at work in the pictures from Abu Ghraib. The real culprit here is the "poison of America's civilian culture."

You see, these soldiers committed these vile acts -- and seemed to really enjoy doing it -- because they watch a lot of violent movies and probably look at tons of porn. If we were a proper Christian society, one assumes, things like this would never happen.

The American jailers, who live in a country where pornography is a $10 billion-a-year business, became amateur pornographers. They videotaped themselves having sex with one another. One of the officers disciplined at Abu Ghraib allegedly took pictures of female soldiers showering. The Americans sexually humiliated Iraqi prisoners, forcing them to masturbate, to wear women's underwear, and to commit (or feign committing) unnatural acts, and captured it on film. If they had done this stateside in different circumstances, they might be very rich and perhaps even up for an Adult Video Award.

Ah! That must be it! How else could they have come up with the idea of taking photographs of naked people? Wow, I just can't think of any other way, either!

The feebleness of his argument is actually pretty impressive. If he had written this article on the moon in different circumstances, he might have seven eyelids and canned beets for dinner.

By his logic, as a society we should basically stop discussing anything, ever, because if it's acceptable to depict something in one context, or even to talk about it, there's always a risk that someone will do it at an inappropriate time, and we can't take that chance.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go drive my car off a cliff. I can only assume I'll survive, or at least be freeze-framed like Thelma & Louise. This is gonna be so cool.

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