Unless those photographs were faked, which seems unlikely, an apology from this nation was a minimum requirement. It's not ok to humiliate other human beings. It's not ok to break the Geneva Convention if you are a signatory. If the Prez found himself in a politically awkward situation, he has only himself and his top people to blame. The media did not put him there, they only found him there.

There seems to be a sense, which I myself have to fight, that since crap happens it's ok for us to perpetrate crap as well. But I for one don't want to see us sink to the level of some of our enemies. What are we fighting for, after all, if not a more peaceful, mutually-respectful world? Or is it just military and economic supremacy that drives this nation?