Carnival Barkers of West 43rd
Carnival Barkers of West 43rd
How come, when they’re merely allegations, NY Times stories of US torture scream in bold type, above the fold–but when the facts come in, they’re buried deep within the A section?
ASIA
AFGHANISTAN: U.S. SOLDIER SENTENCED TO 6 MONTHS FOR ABUSING DETAINEES Sgt. Kevin D. Myricks has been sentenced to six months of confinement and a reduction in rank after a court-martial found him guilty of beating two Afghan detainees at a base in Uruzgan Province in July, the United States military said. The conviction comes three days after another soldier, Specialist James R. Hayes, was convicted for mistreating the same two detainees and sentenced to four months in prison. (AP)
Could it be proof of their contention that, counter to charges from knuckle-draggers like me, they do indeed support the troops? Or is it, rather, that the truth, when it is rigorously and relentlessly rooted out, falls so short of the lurid allegations? The New York Times is no better than a carnival barker who promises proof of alien life inside the tent, but only delivers a cow fetus suspended in a jar of liquid.
US troops have abused prisoners, and they have been punished. End of (evidently not very interesting) story.