Prisoner Abuse, U.S. Military Photos

President Obama has decided not to release the prisoner abuse photos.

I think they should be released. Photos show evil. They show evil that governments participate in.

Most people live in a visual world, not a reader's world. The photos of prisoner abuse, like the photo above of Bull Connor's police dogs in Birmingham, AL in 1963, will change people's attitudes about trusting a government.

The government prosecutes people all the time for abuse; sexual abuse, child abuse, and spousal abuse. Who is going to prosecute the government when it is an abuser?

After 9/11 the rest of the world sympathized with America. We had all the cooperation we needed to go after terrorists. Instead we decided the crowd of the America tribe wanted blood, so off to war we went. The fog of war, especially another unnecessary war, now 7 years long with no end in sight, allows too many things to happen, most of them bad.

Now we are despised by the world. Maybe President Obama, who has seen the photos, does not want the world to know what an evil empire he is in charge of. How will he keep the respect the world has shown him in his first 100 days?

Maybe President Obama does not want Americans to be ashamed. We have had an uppity attitude since WW I when President Woodrow Wilson said that everything America touches turns "holy". Destroy our illusions that we are the best and most virtuous country in the world and you destroy our happiness.

Charles Tolleson