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It's unbelievable sometimes!

Let me take you back even further . . . In 1861, for the first time in our nation's history, men with cameras were sent to some of the bloodiest battlefields of our Civil War, most notably the photographers of the Matthew Brady Studios in New York. Pictures of the fields of dead and dying, from such places as Spotsylvania, Shiloh, Antietam and Gettysburg, were brought back and displayed for the civilians in the Northern states, who were now seeing for themselves the true face of war. And for the rest of that conflict, anti-war protests sprang up from Boston to Philadelphia. That was 150 years ago!

Yes, war is ugly, war is terrible, war "is an end to a political means." But sometimes, to beat an enemy who is that psychotic, you have to be even more psychotic! And yes, the only downfall was that some idiot recorded it!

And does anyone else remember some of the footage from the '70's and '80's, during other Middle East struggles, of killed US soldiers being dragged through the streets of some backward, desert ghetto, while others spit on their bodies and laughed and sang and burned American flags in the background?

I do.  

posted by JimmyA on January 14, 2012 at 9:46 AM | link to this | reply