The Idiocy of right-wing torture apologists is truly sickening: <<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,119529,00.html>>
Many TV networks, including Fox News, deemed the pictures [of the earlier murder and desecration of four Americans in Fallujah] too shocking to air. Fox also heavily censored a videotape of torture sessions carried out by Saddam's regime.
I guess even Fox has its share of liberals who didn't think that the pictures supported their agenda. Oh wait: the piece goes on...
In retrospect, that may have been a mistake. Without showing
the charred bodies of Americans dangling in ignominy, or the
lopped off-arms of justice Saddam-style, how can we judge
the pictures we are now clucking over?Yeah, and while we're at it, maybe Fox should start broadcasting pictures of combatants killed in Iraq? The truth is that Fox (and arguably more liberal news organizations) withhold or edit the most disgusting or disturbing photos and videos because they know damned well that people will only watch so much of that before they are disgusted with the broadcaster and (what they fear most) change channels.
Oh, wait: A media outlet reports on Arab response to the release Berg murder video...
"Zarqawi is an enemy of the Arab and Muslim nation because
he distorted their image and portrayed Islam in an incorrect
manner," said Hasan Ahmad Jar Allah, 41, a Saudi government
employee, who had seen the tape on the Internet.That's Al-Jazeera. Do you suppose that the Senior VP of Al-Jazeera Editorial will later write a piece saying that, in retrospect, publishing this dissenting view was a mistake, because otherwise, how will people judge later stories that they are clucking over?
Fox's Moody continues:
"Do we expect American soldiers to be morally superior to the
people who are trying to kill them ...?"Hell, Yes, I expect them to be morally superior to the enemy! (Well, to be accurate, I expect them to be /under orders/ to be morally superior to the enemy. Knowing that the armed forces contain some percentage of Linndie England and her ilk, and knowing that they are half a world away fighting a war that they don't understand, I /expect/ them to behave like animals.)
Talk about hating America! Isn't it our moral superiority that defines our enemies in the first place? (No, Dave, it's the fact that -- er, that is, the rumor that -- er, that is, the faulty intelligence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction that made him our enemy. Anyway, the world is safer without Saddam in power...) (Be sure to tell that to the Bergs.)
They're *American* soldiers, for goodness' sake, representing *America* and our values, supposedly engaged in winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
If American soldiers are /not/ expected to be morally superior to the people who [they are trying to kill and] are trying to kill them, then what are we? Just the most heavily armed moral inferiors on the planet?
I hope not, but I'm starting to lose hope.
Dave
"Show us the pictures of the pain" -- Jim Morrison
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