Shameful Perversity

The news from Iraq is getting worse with each passing day. I try not to read about it because inevitably, I end up angryand this is bad for my blood pressure. One of the things that is making me the angriest is the latest scandal involving Lynndie England.

If you haven't been following the story, this female soldier was shown in photos smiling as she pointed at naked Iraqi prisoners. The following snippet is from the article I linked to above:

"England's family held a news conference in her hometown Fountain, W.Va., earlier Friday at which they insisted she was following orders when she pointed at naked Iraqis and held a leash attached to a man's neck.


"I don't believe my sister did what was in those photos," her sister Jessica Klinestiver said.

"Certain people told her what to do. I believe they were posed," Klinestiver said."

One has to wonder about why anyone would order another person to put a dog leash on a prisoner, or why anyone would take photos of such dishonorable and shameful actions. Are we also to believe that Lynddie smiled on command? Her family's excusing of her behavior are rather transparent.

The Muslims are not our friends. I fully realize that they are implacable enemies of the Gospel of Christ. Even so, our treatment of them should not be the soulless, degrading and inhumane treatment that is taking place now. They still bear the image of God, and for the sake of that image, though they may do things deserving of death, it should still be a death with dignity.

The thing that really gets me is why women are in the army in the first place. The move to egalitarian views of women has done nothing to elevate women. Rather it has lowered those who have rushed to take advantage of it to the most brutish and unnatural, not to mention indelicate behavior that even many men would be ashamed of. It is no surprise to hear that navy ships that have integrated women are basically floating brothels with the women engaging in immoral actions with the men, many of whom are married. The so called freedom bought by the women's movement has been a freedom to engage in depraved behavior, immorality, and the murder of countless unborn babies.

Pah! A pox on the feminists!