Prime Directive

Reading this article I was somewhat confused on what the author was trying to get across. I still am not quite sure what the meaning behind this story was. I began to somewhat understand some of what he was talking about when he got to the part about Abu Ghraib.

I think the idea of the man and woman portraying Graner and England is dispicable. They were basically making a joke of the disgusting things they did to the prisoners in Iraq. It's people like Graner and England that make people in other countries think that Americans are animals. I think that's what Griffith was sort of getting at. Is that we all have that in us. He didn't even realize what he was doing until the next day when he saw the picture and felt sick with guilt.

Griffith seemed to be kind of a loner in the story or somewhat of a pessimist because he didn't really talk to anyone. He purposely kept to himself at the parties for the most part and didn't participate in the group activities. I didn't see how this played into the whole meaning of the story until he got to the part about Graner and England. I think he didn't realize what he was doing when he took the picture because he hadn't been socializing. The next thing he knew he was taking part in a sick joke. I didn't really get much out of this article other than it's a shame how some people represent America as a whole. Because unlike Griffith who thought we were all represented, I think it's the kind of thing where a few people mess things up for everyone else. I don't think everyone in America is like that. That's about all I really got.