New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, interviewed in 2003 by Charlie Rose, spoke in a sexualized language of violence to justify the war in Iraq (see video below):
“What they needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house, from Basra to Baghdad, and basically saying, ‘Which part of this sentence don’t you understand?’ ” Friedman said. “ ‘You don’t think, you know we care about our open society, you think this bubble fantasy, we’re just gonna let it grow? Well, suck on this.’ That, Charlie, is what this war is about. We could have hit Saudi Arabia, it was part of that bubble. Could have hit Pakistan. We hit Iraq because we could.”
This is the kind of twisted logic that lead to the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse.
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