I was deeply disturbed by
allegations last week that part of the Abu Ghraib abuse involved a US
interrogator forcing a Muslim prisoner to blaspheme his religion. So was
Frederica Mathewes-Green, the Eastern Orthodox writer, who notes the
similarities between methods used in Abu Ghraib and used by the Romanian
communists against their
prisoners–whose number included her spiritual
director, an elderly Orthodox priest now living in the United States. Read
this riveting account and reflect on John Miller’s question: when will the
victims of communism get their monument?