Shit the KGB did

Where is the outrage?
Where is the shame?

We are not supposed to be the country that does this type of shit.

SAN DIEGO (AP) -- An Iraqi whose corpse was photographed with grinning U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib died under CIA interrogation while in a position condemned by human rights groups as torture - suspended by his wrists, with his hands cuffed behind his back, according to reports reviewed by The Associated Press.

I am a child of the 1980s. I was entering double digits when the decade began and in the middle of college when the decade ended. I grew up with stand up video games, synth bands with big hair, and leg warmers.

I also grew up in a decade when the "Evil Empire", the USSR, was the epitome of evil shit. They were the ones that tortured their prisoners and political dissenters. They were the ones that had no sense of human dignity or the rule of law. All a kid had to do was watch Rambo 3 or Red Dawn - it was crystal clear.

Now it's crystal clear that we've been pulling some pretty evil shit ourselves. And it makes me sad. I grew up thinking that we were better than the rest of the world because we were more moral and righteous than the rest of the world. We were the country of liberty and freedom... the country of human rights.

The saddest thing of all is that the rest of the world used to look at us as a country of liberty and human rights - we WERE that shining city on a hill for millions around the world.

Not anymore. And that should make EVERY American very sad.