The soldier dragged through the streets proves the morbid cruelty of the citizens of this city. Stop turning on one another. The comments in most of the responses are making matters worse. I was in high school when the magazine that featured this image of a US service member being drug through the streets on the cover.
The same goes for photos and video taken from inside concentration camps where the bodies of emaciated babies, children, men and women from ages 8 days to 80 years have been haphazardly thrown in ditches, many starved to death or beaten beyond recognition, mutilated, set on fire and tossed into mass graves and in the back of trucks. Their only crime was being born. Then there is the video of a hysterical woman holding the corpse of a baby in the Warsaw Ghetto.
There are also photos and film of entire villages of mainly children who were raped and murdered in front of their mothers and grandparents before soldiers, US soldiers mind you, slaughtered all of them during the Vietnam conflict. We need to fight the real enemy, not each other.
Not all Muslims are evil, nor are all people of a different race and color, religion, sexuality, faith or political affiliation evil. There is no reason to use the crude and vile terms used in so many of the posts. Yes, be angry that this happened. Yes, bring attention to the despicable and heinous acts that took place then and still continue to take place to this day. But try and do so without spewing such vile hate and utter disdain that does nothing but fan the flames of hatred, racism and contempt.
The problem with all of this is fear, learned bad experiences and the inability for people to just treat others kindly. Look at the Holocaustβ¦look at any time of great human suffering and you see fear is rampant. People can do terrible things when there is that pressure and fear.
