Human Rights Violation

Found on the MNF-Iraq website:

Sgt. Tierney Nowland teaches the Macarena dance with an Iraqi soldier of 2nd Battalion, 1st Brigade during a break with Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division out of Fort Lewis, Wash., on a cordon and search mission in Ameriyah, Iraq, May 16. Nowland is combat camera with the 982nd Signal Company, Wilson, N.C. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Elisha Dawkins.

Disturbing stuff.

Comments

Truly, this is why they hate us.

Posted by sangfroid826 | May 31, 2007 5:02 PM

The Iraqi is in the process of holding up his other arm and saying "Waterboard me --- please!"

Posted by goethean | May 31, 2007 5:03 PM

This is what happens when you let women into the military.

Posted by ostap | May 31, 2007 5:05 PM

I just realized Andrew Sullivan has a spiffy quote under his masthead--from Orwell, natch--but you have nothing of the sort! This must be rectified immediately.

I make this recommendation, which I believe suits the purpose and spirit of your blog perfectly:

"Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace."
--Immanuel Kant

Posted by Korha | May 31, 2007 5:13 PM

This is disturbing too: Al Qaeda in Iraq attempts to keep students from taking final exams.

Posted by Fred | May 31, 2007 5:20 PM

How did al-Qaeda suddenyl manage to take over all of Iraq? Or, is it that any and every opposition to military occupation in Iraq or sectional strife is called al-Qaeda so that we have more reason to occupy Iraq forever?

Posted by Jennifer | May 31, 2007 6:04 PM

Starting a few weeks ago, every incident in Iraq was al-Qaeda this and al-Qaeda that. This is just propaganda nonsense.

Posted by Jennifer | May 31, 2007 6:06 PM

"This is disturbing too: Al Qaeda in Iraq attempts to keep students from taking final exams."

Then 4 years of continual destruction in Iraq is fine, but this is disturbing. Only disturbing to me, because the story shows what our deception is about.

Posted by Jennifer | May 31, 2007 6:10 PM

In Vietnam, we had to stay to keep the Saigon regime from being overthrown. In Iraq, there's no credible danger to the regime whatsoever, but we still have to stay to make sure students get to take their final exams. This is neither comedy nor tragedy, but farce.

Posted by Steve | May 31, 2007 6:12 PM

I will defend the Macarena if no one else will.

Posted by Matt Weiner | May 31, 2007 10:04 PM

I will defend the Macarena if no one else will.

I don't think Weiner understands the stakes.

Posted by Matthew Yglesias | June 1, 2007 1:37 AM

You people don't undertand. We have to have them do the Macarena over there, or people will be doing it over here . . .

Posted by rea | June 1, 2007 8:14 AM

OK, Rea - you get the prize for funniest comment, I have to admit. LOL

Posted by chuck | June 1, 2007 8:43 AM

"Found on the MNF-Iraq website:"

Why does Monday Night Football have an Iraq War website?

Posted by Njorl | June 1, 2007 2:35 PM