THE INTERNET IS FOR PORN! It looks like Avenue Q's Trekkie Monster was right: "In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!" Consider chaotic Iraq. Recent reports claim that some U.S. soldiers have been bartering photos of prisoner abuse in order to gain access to a porn website.

More than a year ago, military historian Joanna Bourke equated the abuse photographs with pornography in a Guardian article: "Many people have questioned the motives and conduct of the war in Iraq, but these pornographic images have stripped bare what little force remained in the humanitarian rhetoric concerning the war. In the Arab world, the damage has been done, and is irrevocable." I don't necessarily agree with all of her points, but they're worth contemplation.

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