A war is lost when atrocities begin. Jean-Paul Sartre said that fascism is "...not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them." The rising tide of atrocities has turned the middle east irrevocably against the US even as secular nations now associate US troops with Abu Ghraib and Haditha -the CIA with an eastern European gulag. We have yet to reap the full effect of a gathering storm. |