> Americans seem > to believe that everyone is envious and wants to be > part of America.
Perhaps because American products and American culture are so in demand around the world, and because a lot more people try to enter the US than leave it?
> Goldsworthy cites photographs showing American > soldiers ordering Iraqi civilians to lie face down > in the dirt while they are checked for weapons. "For > Arabs, to be spread-eagled with your face in the > dust is a hugely shameful thing," she said...
I thought that was the whole point, whether it is soldiers ordering enemy prisoners to do so or police ordering felony suspects to get out of the car and do so: deliberately treating them in a degrading manner in order to establish who is in charge, to minimize the likelihood of resistance.
-- Ronn! :)
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