Ralph Peters on Abu Ghraib's Impact

In his New York Post opinion piece, Ralph Peters points out that most of the Arab nations critical of the US handling of the Abu Ghraib situation have much worse records of justice.

As an American, I want my country to be held to higher standards — we can live up to them. Proudly. But we don't need any more hypocritical charges from states with no standards at all. [. . .]

All those who opposed the removal of Saddam, from the BBC to Egyptian state television to The New York Times, act as though the events in Abu Ghraib prove that they were right all along.

No. They weren't right. And no amount of disingenuous "reporting" or feigned shock on the part of newsreaders can change the fact that America behaved nobly and bravely in Iraq — or that we continue to struggle to do the right thing, if sometimes ineptly.