Where Is The Outrage At Iranian Hostages?

The British sailors being held captive by the Iranians has sparked outrage in the UK, and the British government has protested loudly in the press and through diplomatic channels. Where are the US cries of outrage? Where is the demand from our government?

Well, funny thing. We used to be able to take the moral high ground on these kinds of issues. We stood firmly against torture, and taking hostages. We abhorred human rights abuses and deplored parading prisoners before TV cameras where they gave forced confessions.

Today, we can’t do that anymore. Why? Because we use torture to get confessions from hostages, or as we like to call the "detainees". We parade them in front of TV cameras to show our determination to win the "War on Terror" and we have become serial human-rights abusers. We have no moral high ground left to stand on.

Now we have taken a page from the playbook of the same nations we once railed against and now we must remain relatively silent or risk exposing our hypocrisy to the world. Well here’s the big news. We already look like hypocrites to the world and he America I grew up with is a pale shell of the country I once knew. We must reclaim our heritage and constitution and cease the kind of immoral behavior the Bush administration is awash in. There is a solution and it is in the hands of every registered voter. We must take back America at the ballot box!