7.09.2006

In the "Gosh, I'm Sure THIS Won't Cause Any Bad Feelings in Iraq" Department

The U.S. military wants to exhume (not a practice happily committed in Muslim countries) the body of the girl allegedly raped before she and her entire family was murdered which sparked off so much recent violence and exacerbated ill will. This is a move designed - it seems - to generate far more upset than questions it will answer. But that's our modus operandi in Iraq, isn't it?

BTW, although the media refers to this girl constantly as "woman" or "young woman", she was barely 15. Here, that's a kid. And if they wanted to present it fairly, they would refer to her as a girl here as they would any other 15-year-old. But "woman" or "young woman" sounds more.. uh.. culpable?