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http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/15-02-2007/87441-army_prostitute-0

I just finished reading some testimonials and articles about sexual and other abuses in the Russian military. I have to say, what annoys me as much as the abuses themselves are the responses in English. American readers respond with comments like “wow, I’m so glad I live in the USA”, ‘”typical Soviet Union”, or other annoying remarks.

Why are Americans so incapable of looking at the world around them, with all of its problems and issues, without relating back to childish American idealism? These fools take blind pride in the American military, refusing to believe that our own soldiers are subject to hazing, sexual abuse, rape, and even torture — I haven’t encountered a study in the US media, for example, on the large number of suicides and attempted suicides among our own military in Iraq and Afghanistan.

While I am so outraged at the situation in the Russian military, which I should note, is not volunteer-based, I am sickened and embarrassed by American attitudes on the issue. They need to grow up and judge their own country the way they judge others. Maybe they should spend more time contemplating what our military environment would be like should the US reinstate a draft? Or the lawlessness of Iraq, where our soldiers and citizens are raping and abusing each other because they know they can get away with it? Just a suggestion.