Bang Galore
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I can understand Europeans criticising the Americans, others I'm not so sure about. People in Pakistan & even in India criticising the US for torture based on these reports is a joke. Pakistan where a journalist (only one of many) Syed Saleem Shahzad was tortured & killed merely for being an inconvenient pest and on orders of the top brass of the Pakistani military (the Americans supposedly had a tape of a conversation between Kayani & ISI chief Pasha where the order was given leading to Adm. Mike Mullen publicly saying that Shahzad's murder was ordered by the Pakistan state) and where there have been numerous incidents of executions by the Pakistani army is hardly in a position to get on any kind of a high horse. While India maybe better than Pakistan, torture is regularly reported at lower level policing and would not surprise many if it was carried out by Intelligence agencies against terrorists, their supporters etc
Funny thing is that all those who criticise the Americans bitterly hold them to a much higher standard than they would themselves. Essentially starting with the premise that the Americans are better.
Funny thing is that all those who criticise the Americans bitterly hold them to a much higher standard than they would themselves. Essentially starting with the premise that the Americans are better.