Monday, April 1, 2013
Taxi to the Dark Side
While watching the film, I kept forcing myself to think about the atrocity of 9/11. I tried to justify our military actions by the crime committed against us on that day. But, it doesn't quite match up. The crime committed against us was a military crime. Yes, it was awful, horrible, atrocious, but understandable: they were crazy. Our cime against the people of the Middle East is not understandable. These people know nothing about anything and are subjected to awful treatment. The crimes committed against them are crimes against humanity, not just against a country. The crime is personal and psychological. I agreed with the person who said we're making more terrorists through this detainment process. Children who are abused generally grow up to abuse their children. Women who are raped are changed forever. These men's lives are ruined. What gives the U.S. Military the power to do that, to ruin people's lives? What gives us the right to detain citizens in another country? We can't ignore the inalienable rights we're supposedly fighting for in the first place.
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I do agree with you that it is unacceptable to commit crimes against the people of the Middle East on the grounds of "because they can". But I have to disagree with your idea that the people of the Middle East know nothing about what is going on. Some of the people they brought in were suspected terrorists that were innocent, but some of them were not, and although ethically wrong I am sure through the brutal abuse the American Soldiers did acquire valuable information. I am not saying it is justified, just that maybe the Middle Eastern people were not as faultless at you make them seem. Other than that, I to thought about 9/11 a lot during this documentary, and thought of all the anger of the American people had, and I can see were the hatred and disrespect of the soldiers came from, and how they treated them like dogs. Revenge is a hideous motive, but a powerful one.
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