Profitsbeard wrote: “We probably lost 1,000 more dead, unnecessarily, and gained a demonically-refreshed global jihadism thanks to that vacuous and asinine ‘little’ prison-rules “oversight”.”

I respectfully disagree.

Arab society is male driven, macho, and male supremacist. It has been documented that the prisoners at Abu Gharib that were “abused” (i.e., humiliated — which I do not consider either torture or abuse) were mostly hard core insurgents and/or insurgent leaders. What the pictures did is show insurgents and their leaders, macho men who gained respect for fighting the American war machine, humilated by American women — who role in Arab society is supposed to be second class and servile.

These are the same people who kill their wives and daughters if they bring shame on their families. They are people who KILL RAPE VICTIMS for daring to survive to shame their families. They are the ones who order the genital mutilation of their women.

And here they are, led on leashes like dogs (an insulting term to an Arab) by WOMEN — second class citizens, and “infidel whores” to boot! Here they are photographed in HOMOSEXUAL poses.

They have been shamed. And the muslim world knows that they were shamed by AMERICANS — those craven cowards who cut and ran in Mogedishu, as bin Laden likes to remind his troops.

And the muslim world also knows that it was AMERICAN WOMAN — second class citizens, at best — who are powerful enough to humiliate an Iraqi insurgent leader.

Being killed in combat with the infidel gets them martydom. Being captured and not fighting to the death calls out questons about their courage or belief in Allah. Being captured, and being made to pose for cameras in humiliating poses — especially when women are dominating them — not only questions their courage but their fitness to lead. After all, who would want to follow men who let themselves appear to be sucking off other men in a homophobic society, or being led on a leash like a common dog.

These individual insurgents have lost all their power to command respect by NOT KILLING THEMSELVES or by not attacking the guards and being shot down in the process.

This didn’t “demonically refresh” the Jihad. It humiliated the LEADERSHIP of the Jihad in Iraq. Some of their best fighters got sidelined because of it.

And the same thing happened when Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester led a counter attack against insurgents attacking a truck convoy last year, causing the killing of 27 insurgents, wounding 6 and capturing 1.

Hester’s squad was shadowing a supply convoy March 20 when anti-Iraqi fighters ambushed the convoy. The squad moved to the side of the road, flanking the insurgents and cutting off their escape route. Hester led her team through the “kill zone” and into a flanking position, where she assaulted a trench line with grenades and M203 grenade-launcher rounds. She and Nein, her squad leader, then cleared two trenches, at which time she killed three insurgents with her rifle.

She was awarded the Silver Star.

Muslim men, killed by women warriors are not given the martydom treatment by the living. Why? They got BEATEN by women. They got KILLED by women. Infidel women, no less.

They’re not martyrs — they’re FAILURES who can’t even handle American women.

While we will never know with certainty, rather than cost an additional 1000 KIA, Abu Gharib and Sgt. Hester rocked the insurgency leadership back on their heels, and may have prevented US KIAs.

georgej on October 27, 2006 at 2:33 AM