Crumbling of the American Soul (2016)
THIS IS AN ADULT ARTICLE: READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED.
“Torture destroys the soul of the torturer even as it destroys the body of its victim. The boundary between humane treatment of prisoners and torture is perhaps the clearest boundary on existence between civilization and barbarism”
Jonathan Schell 1.
Gaining national coverage as the story broke, the shock and awe that surrounded the photographs that emerged from Abu Ghraib only scratched the surface of what would be done in the name of safety. The only real glimpses of what occurred within that facility came paired with smiling faces in the foreground. Many of those people who were appalled by the nature of these sadistic actions conducted by fellow American’s on other human beings almost seemed like fiction. The very photographs embodying events that occurred in a far off land with nameless faces distanced us from them, and what was happening in those rooms; however, in this instance those faces wore a uniform…a U.S. military uniform. Although, it is difficult to resist the use of tortu…
