no apologies are needed if you think about it--I wouldn't, save for the actual victems of the abuse. Having spent recently time over there defusing duds and clearing mine fields in the great kitty litter box, I am of the mind that if apologies are needed it should be arab to arab, Islam to Islam for centuries of brutality against each other. What happened at that prison is but a tiny pin prick.

In the days of Saladin, Islamic culture, understanding and tolerance was at its height--far more so then Medeaval Europe at the time. But with the passage of the centuries, petty tyrants have regressed and made so backward there peoples through cruelty, harshness, and brutallity.

But to be fair Western world hasn't been any help--there are a lot of evils done to them by European countries, the British, French, Germans (18th-19th-& 20th centuries) and sadly the USA. I could go on and write a book but shall not. As for an apology, from the USA, there would be that from me, an apology for perpetuating and supporting ISlamic tyrants based on short sighted policies and cold war politics.