Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Nothing New


So the United States of America tortured people. In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet. That’s my view when the US Senate Intelligence Committee released a report detailing "brutal" interrogations of al-Qaeda suspects by members of the CIA.

So the CIA tortured people. How is that news? That’s why they were kept in Guantanamo Bay right? That’s what the “extraordinary rendition of terror suspects” is all about right? They were dropped off in countries like Thailand, Syria and Egypt so that they could be tortured. That’s hardly news. People had been saying all that for years.

Yes, there is some new stuff in the report like how at least one person died while under torture and how the “program” was pretty unsuccessful in getting good information but generally, there’s nothing new about the reports. Yet when you go on BBC, CNN or FOX News, all the stations goes on and on about how damming, brutal and explosive the report is.

I don’t get it. I’m no news reporter and I heard most of the stuff that is in the report. Anyone who thinks what’s in the report is new had not been paying attention. 

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You’re looking at this like a normal citizen of the world. Americans think of themselves as the white hats, the good guys, the knights in shining amour. Most of them neither understand nor accept the simple fact that in war, everyone is a piece of shit.

Ghost said...

I don't think that's quite right. No one like to think of themselves as the villains. You are right however that in war, there's no "good guys".