26-10-2010, 10:08 AM
It also looks as though Channel 4's flagship documentary programme Dispatches got a good look at the Iraq files too.
It's broadcast last night was damning, damning, damning to the US. I have to say I was really very surprised at the high level of criticism on the part of the programme makers for US actions and complicity.
I came away thinking that in a world where the Rule of Law operated, any nation other than the US would be hauled before the Hague's War Crimes Court for outright murder and horrific torture of the civilian population of Iraq. The US rules of engagement operating under the rubric of "Force Protection", gave numerous trigger-happy gung-ho soldiers the right to shoot and kill on a whim.
And boy did they ever indulge themselves.
It's broadcast last night was damning, damning, damning to the US. I have to say I was really very surprised at the high level of criticism on the part of the programme makers for US actions and complicity.
I came away thinking that in a world where the Rule of Law operated, any nation other than the US would be hauled before the Hague's War Crimes Court for outright murder and horrific torture of the civilian population of Iraq. The US rules of engagement operating under the rubric of "Force Protection", gave numerous trigger-happy gung-ho soldiers the right to shoot and kill on a whim.
And boy did they ever indulge themselves.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14