Why Abu Ghraib Didn't Matter

Jana Prikryl looks at Abu Ghraib: A Global Family Portrait and reaches a sad but true conclusion:

At Abu Ghraib, prisoners were stripped, injured, and sexually violated, and several were killed during interrogation--that last a fact that went underreported in most of the coverage of the 'scandal.' Yet there was no active response from the top branches of government; there was no public outcry; there was no sustained pressure from the media. From all this one can only conclude that Americans feel solidarity with those sadistic, abusive soldiers--after all, they're our sadistic abusive soldiers.

But the images DID MATTER elsewhere in the world, particularly in Arab countries.