Wow.
There is an absolutely incredible guest entry in Kevin Drum’s Washington Monthly blog today by Debra Dickerson, a former GI.
It’s about her reaction to learning that women were involved in the recent scandal about treatment of prisoners, herewith an excerpt.
“How any woman could participate in the kind of degradation those prisoners were subjected to, especially when female GIs are at such risk of being raped and sexually humiliated themselves, is beyond me. So I guess I’m not as feminist as I thought. As for the GIs involved generally, my mind simply boggles. I can not understand how you can wear the uniform and behave like Saddam Hussein. I once yelled at a GI for walking around the mall with his sunglasses tucked into his collar, I once had a Marine bite my head off for offering him an umbrella in the pouring rain, and these losers are posing in uniform in front of torture victims? Grinning? I’d been thinking they should be turned over to the Iraqi courts. Now, I think – a court composed of present and former GIs. I’d love to have a crack at them. They’d never see blue sky again.”
Highly recommended.
