Watched 24 on Sunday and Monday, which brings up this debate. In the show, Keifer Sutherland’s character shoots a terrorist in the leg in order to get him to tell what he’s plotting. This is typical behavior for the hero of this show; and yet we’re trying to convince the rest of the world that the naked human dogpiles that took place in the Abu Graib prison is not typical American treatment of prisoners.
Of course, now that I’m back at school, I don’t have time for TV anymore.
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