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The photographs of unmuzzled dogs terrifying Abu Ghraib prisoners remind Hersh of the police tactics used on Southern civil rights marchers in the 1960s and Jews in Germany during the 1940s.
'We have seen pictures like that before,' Hersh says."
At the conclusion of his remarks at the U. of C., several students queue up to ask how they might make a contribution in this war-dimmed world.
"How is your Arabic?" Hersh asks one.
He urges another to consider working for the government or a human rights agency. The country "is just as much ours as it is theirs," Hersh tells a third student. "They have it now, but we can take it back; that's all. We can't just say, `It's yours,' and slink away." And with inimitable bluntness, he makes his case for patriotism:
"Eleven years after getting out of the University of Chicago -- and I wasn't editor of the Maroon, I wasn't president of anything, I flunked out of law school -- I was sticking two fingers in the eye of the very conservative president, Richard Nixon, and being hailed for it.
"What other country can you do that in?"
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