Angry eyes

[Reeder]

Then you would see it. In the eyes. The clean, white fury of men who have been reduced to abject humiliation and powerlessness in front of their families. The hatred in their eyes would be as pure as any you would ever see. It would last forever. You would never forget it.

I saw those eyes again the other day on the evening news. A group of young American soldiers, sent by their government to go house to house in a sweltering Baghdad suburb, had kicked in a door and rousted a family. The children were terrified, crying. The mother was furious, screaming. The eyes of the GIs were filled with confusion and shame at what they were being made to do by their government.

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vplar13d3411892aug13,0,5863692.story

[Speaker_for_the_Dead]

Wow… that was very well written. Even ignoring the political message, it’s a powerful piece of writing, in my opinion.