I can respect that, but remain astounded nonetheless.
ScR
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Sent: May 15, 2004 2:05 PM
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Subject: RE: [RollTideFan] The faces of war
> The point that in order to honor them and their sacrifice, there
> must be a political agenda behind it. These people have lost
> their life and left behind families...momma's, daddies, sisters,
> brothers, wives and worst of all...children. It matters not
> whether the reason is politically justifiable or not. They are
> missing from their loved ones lives regardless. I think it
> detracts from their memory to attempt (successfully or not, it
> doesn't matter) to add any political rhetoric. Their death is a
> fact independent of politics. Their and their families' loss is a
> fact independent of any justification or lack thereof.
>
> It should sadden all of us, whether the politics behind them
> being in a position to lose the precious gift of life is good,
> bad or indifferent. Feeling the need to justify their death
> misses the true point and appears to color their death with the
> foul stench of politics. Maybe I missed to portion of the site
> that injected politics....it seemed entirely focused upon the
> individuals and their ultimate sacrifice and that is all it should be.
>
> It seems the reality of death and war disturb us in different
> ways largely unique to each individual. I think it was
> Stephen Decatur who said something to the effect of " "Our
> country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always
> be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!" I think most
> everyone one of us believe this.
>
> ScR
>
OK - then the fact is, you and I actually agree much more than we disagree,
but our prime area of disagreement, as I see it, is with the presentation on
the CNN web site.
I believe that CNN's list of names, photos, cause of death, etc. is akin to
the same political backdrop as Ted Koppel's supposed tribute to the fallen
on the Nightline TV show. I think if you simply present the list of names
and the fact that they died, without indicating what they died for, then you
are politicizing their deaths. (Note: when I say "you," I am using it in the
editorial sense and not indicating you in particular.) Therefore, in my
view, CNN is politicizing their death by presenting it in such a way as to
indicate that it is meaningless by not showing it's meaning. There are lot's
of links on the left hand side of the screen, but all of them simply point
to nuts and bolts of the war and the battles without pointing to the
atrocities that brought us to war in the first place. My problem with the
site is that I feel that it IS politicizing their death. That is what you
wish to avoid, yet, in my opinion, you provided a link that does just that.
Of course this is all opinion, but that is the way I feel.
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