Victims of our own high-flown morality (2 May 04) :: Radio Free USA :: Unflinching and unembedded independent news: "The 'Good Guys' who can do no wrong
ROBERT FISK
Independent
Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire. "