In Our Present-Day White Christian Culture

Jacqueline Rose: Freud and Zionism, 8 July 2004

... was done in Abu Ghraib is nothing compared to the executions and tortures of Saddam Hussein. As Ahdaf Soueif put it in a recent article in the Guardian: ‘Hussein is now the moral compass of the West.’ Humiliation is a central component of torture. In Abu Ghraib, as many commentators have pointed out, the humiliation is targeted deliberately at ...