I had planned to talk about this when the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story was being blown out of proportion and just never got around to it. It all came rushing back when I started to see this video of one of our Marines shooting a terrorist in Fallujah. Why do we so often get these stories completely out of context?

You know why. We're supposed to think that Americans are a bunch of blood-thirsty cock-bites who go around shooting unarmed men and abusing poor helpless prisoners. Were they to report all the questionable behavior of US soldiers in context, it wouldn't even be worth reporting. For example, the guy that was shot in Fallujah was a terrorist who

1. was shooting at our Marines only a few minutes earlier
2. may have already been dead, or if not…
3. may have been about to spring a trap on the soldiers present

Let's compare our culture of evil callous bastards to the culture of those poor victims we're committing these awful crimes against.

Remind me again what we're supposed to feel guilty about? This goes way beyond a simple double standard. The Arab world responds with either praise or silence to people who behave like animals, yet they criticize us for being human. I think all coverage of these stories should be done in a split screen, laid out similar to the table above, showing footage of all the events — not just the ones that make us look bad.