{"id":7330,"date":"2004-05-06T23:58:43","date_gmt":"2004-05-06T23:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/torturous.html"},"modified":"2004-05-06T23:58:43","modified_gmt":"2004-05-06T23:58:43","slug":"torturous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/torturous.html","title":{"rendered":"Torturous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking that what <a href=\"http:\/\/davidmorrison.typepad.com\/sed_contra\/2004\/05\/our_faces_in_th.html\">David Morrison has to say about the vile treatment of Iraqi prisoners is pretty intriguing<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back to the bad news. I am afraid that this represents the&#8230;.increasing depravity abroad in this country. The U.S. armed forces in Iraq now has a larger percentage of reservists among its ranks in recent history. And while I, as a former Navy man myself including time in the reserves, draws back from blaming anyone as a group for what happened &#8211; I think these two facts are connected. It is not a twisted &#8220;military culture&#8221; that allowed these things to happen, it was men and women whose lives are essentially civilian and who are more 90% of the time NOT military &#8211; and I deeply fear this says more about us than we would like to admit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m thinking that what David Morrison has to say about the vile treatment of Iraqi prisoners is pretty intriguing Back to the bad news. I am afraid that this represents the&#8230;.increasing depravity abroad in this country. 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