Abu Ghraib and the American Media
“With a calmness and clarity of purpose worthy of Virgil,
Lila Rajiva leads us step-by-step into a darkness none of us want to confront.
But face it we must, if we have any hope of derailing the mad machinery of
death and torture unleashed on the world by the Bush Imperium. The horror
chambers of Abu Ghraib have become a stomach-turning symbol of the official
sadism of the Iraq war. A tragic excess, say some; the work of a demented few,
say others. But Rajiva looks deeper, exposing how the perverse logic of torture
has infected the language and psychology of the American imperial project, from
its sycophants in the press and its evangelists in the pulpit. Her book is an
unsettling expedition into the political consciousness of cruelty.”
—JEFFREY ST. CLAIR, coeditor of CounterPunch and author of Grand
Theft Pentagon
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