This recently neglected blog is going to get new life. Over the next month, I will be taking a vacation and traveling and hopefully blogging. I've already ventured from San Francisco to Kansas to visit my folks. On Thursday, my mother and I will fly to New York for a long weekend. Afterwards, I will be flying solo from Newark to Paris for a couple weeks. Pictures and Tweets will be posted to document my travels.
In preparation for our trip to New York City, I've been reading the New Yorker. Today, I finished an excellent article about the MPs who found their morality tested unexpectedly at Abu Ghraib. Exposure by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris focuses on Sabrina Harman and her photos and letters detailing the treatment of prisoners. The article was written from interviews done for Morris' documentary, "Standard Operating Procedure".
One of the most interesting aspects of the article were the real stories from the MPs behind some of the pictures we have associated with Abu Ghraib. While the stories don't make the images any less shocking, it was easier to sympathize with the captors who were ordered to degrade the prisoners.
Posted at 9PM Central time.
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