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Tue, 04 Sep 2012 17:51:37 +0000

[...] take responsibility to see the horrors of war otherwise we may not shift out political conscience: http://www.nocaptionneeded.com/?p=6966 Of course, it depends with what mindset people appraoch images. So simply put, a photo of a dead [...]

By: Hariman

Hariman — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:26:00 +0000

Jeremy: Read the post again. Of course they know–that’s the point: horrific wounds are routine at that medical unit, and the public should know that. Criticism of the war is not criticism of the troops, but rather of the civilian policy makers. The distinction between administrative decisions and military implementation holds for all citizens, whether they are combat veterans or not. If the American public is going to authorize a war, accept its continuation beyond the original war aim, and pay for it, they ought to know the full material and human costs, including the suffering that is involved.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 11:01:13 +0000

Of course they are appearing as if they are used to it. Doctors all around the world appear like that. They are professionals, their job is to save peoples lives, they don’t let emotions get the better of them. Funny how you women and wimps back home complain about war when the soldiers themselves feel they are doing a good job. You aren’t fighting, you aren’t in danger, so you can’t talk, what you think doesn’t matter.

By: The problem with regarding the photography of suffering as ‘pornography’ | David Campbell

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:36:07 +0000

[...] What if, rather than being emotionally exhausted, any lack of empathy comes from people deciding they just don’t want to know about atrocity regardless of the nature of the available pictures? There is much more thought to be [...]

By: Hariman

Hariman — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:27:31 +0000

Djflargo: Read my fourth paragraph, which addresses your point.

By: djflargo

djflargo — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:21:44 +0000

Not even going to comment on whether we should be in AF/PAK or no, other than to state that I am no big fan of nation-building. (hint: kill them all, let G-D sort them out is more my style). But can you not see the gaping hole in your logic: at sunset of the final day of Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh or any other major Civil War battle, soldiers with wounds as gruesome as this (or even worse if possible) lay scattered across the field. Should we conclude the Civil War was pointless?

By: Rick Darby

Rick Darby — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:27:51 +0000

Would even publishing that photo of the dreadfully wounded soldier on the front page of every newspaper in the country help? I know many people — many of them with politics different from mine — who also understand the futile carnage of our presence in Afghanistan and Iraq. Our political class seems to have lost the ability to ask fundamental questions and is out of touch with the values of those they are supposed to be working for.

Anyway, congratulations on an eloquent posting.

By: eh

eh — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:03:01 +0000

Usually I avoid rubbing your face in it, but not today.

Don’t. Rub away. This is the reality too few Americans, including politicians, see. Whenever I see a politician speak of the war as necessary I feel nothing but disgust and contempt. So much so I’d like to rub a foto like this right in their face; stuff it down their throat. They have no idea. And worse, they don’t care enough to get one. They vote on “appropriations”, nothing more.

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