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I read about this sort of thing--coercing victims to vindicate their oppressors, and similar moral atrocities--and just couldn't understand how people in power could get away with it, or how other people would let them.
At one level, I still don't understand.
I've heard of kids referring to adults as "the petrified forest," an apt reflection on the difference between how adults walk vs. how kids run around. But I think of it in another sense--how adults' sense of simple, straight-forward sense of right and wrong, that we've all experienced as kids, becomes petrified, even though (because?) we become much more adept at talking about right and wrong.
I guess I just never grew up.
And if, as heralded after the 2000 election, the Bush crew reperesents the grownups being in charge, then I'm certain I never grew up.
