An Odd Sense of Justice
According to many supporters of the war in Iraq, the main justification is neither an imminent threat to America, nor the presence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. Rather they propose a radical theory that we can impose American Democracy on Iraq by force, and therefore remake the entire middle east. A tempting theory, but doesn't it require concerted effort on our part to take the highest moral road possible in all of our dealings in Iraq? Even putting aside such excesses as those in Abu Ghraib prison, clearly there is something amiss in our approach in Iraq. Under international law we may, as an occupying power, detain people we perceive as a threat to the security of our forces. Fair enough, the concept of keeping prisoners of war is an easy one to grasp. But we have gone badly wrong on this concept on numerous fronts.
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