In The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reports on How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. Taguba was born in the Philippines, his father was a veteran of Bataan, and Taguba himself became a bemedaled general in the US armed forces. Read about his integrity.
If only we have generals like him -here at home.
In The New Yorker, Seymour Hersh reports on How Antonio Taguba, who investigated the Abu Ghraib scandal, became one of its casualties. Taguba was born in the Philippines, his father was a veteran of Bataan, and Taguba himself became a bemedaled general in the US armed forces. Read about his integrity.If only we have generals like him -here at home.
We do have generals like him there in the Philippines.
We have had a police general who retired with no mansion, no flashy car, no fanfare, none of those that most generals have when they leave office.
We have had generals who served with distinction and purpose, nameless to be sure, but they are there.
The thing is that these generals are just like any soldier in any part of the world: they come, they serve, the leave.
Those generals who get to be...."well-known"... unfortunately, are those who are willing to kiss the politicos' butts while the dump is still dripping from it, and shout to the world that they smell like roses.
They are the ones who know how to play politics for promotion, for personal aggrandizement, for all the good stuff.
America allows one to be of Gen. Taguba's integrity. Barely.
The US Army knowing that invetigating the abuses will lead to the sacking of the investigator choses the Filipino General for racist reason. They get rid of the brown monkey who dare to tell the truth about the savages of the white gorillas in the Abu Graib prisons where tortures are allowed by the highest authorities.
I symphatize with the good General Taguba, but miliary politics in America is a broad and very complex matter even if the interest of their country is always the paramount consideration for every decision made, so this is not a commentary about the said issue. I would just like to comment on the writer, Seymour Hersh. Based from various articles he had written, it's very obvious that he is an ardent hater of American policies. There were reports in the intelligence community that he is in the payroll of some fundamentalist and extremist governments, therefore it seems his views as a writer cannot be considered as neutral, if the report is true.