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This is all fair enough, but what about the people Private England was photographed torturing ? Y'know, where's their thread ?
Personally, Private England could be as much of a victim of whatever you like, The Sun, an abusive boyfriend, growing up in a redneck midwest town, being in front of the camera at the worst possible time, and it would go no way at all to justify her recent behaviour. Arguably, she's being demonised, but then again, she was in the f-ing photos in the first place. What was she doing there ?
With that smile on her face ?
As a soldier you're trained to kill, of course, and it's sometimes, debatably, what needs to be done, ( I'd argue not, but that's a whole other subject, ) but what you're not trained to do, hopefully, is maliciously dehumanise a fellow human being to the point where they're just lying there, naked, on the floor, with a collar round their neck.
But Private England's going to get what's coming to her. Which, at a guess, will be six months inside, at the most, and then she'll get someone to ghost-write her autobiography, and then go on all the chat shows, reinvent herself as an American heroine or some sort of ingenue, depending on the political climate. But either way, she'll be fine.
The same isn't necessarily true of her victims, however. |
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