It took pictures and film of the atrocities of the Nazis to convince many people that the holocaust actually happened.
Sad to say, too many people in America (indeed, the world) would be inclined to side with the terrorists were it not for films of their atrocities. Note: How many people in the U.S.
refuse to believe the progress that is being accomplished in Iraq....BECAUSE THE PRESS REFUSES TO SHOW THEM!
Maybe you don't need to see the beheadings. Sadly, too many people do. Otherwise, they don't believe.
Bingo. It's not about "left" or "right" as the OP suggested.
It's about waking up the hundreds of millions of Joe Sixers out there who see war as one more spectator sport, and patriotism as allegiance to state accompanied by the occasional "Yay, team!" when the perfumed paratroopers are on parade, lashed to an aging ex-prexy.
The world is in a crisis the likes of which it's never faced before -- an incomprehensible amalgam comprised of the powderkeg leading up to WWI, the atrocities of WWII, and the religious madness that led up to the conquest of Europe, and the Crusades.
Only this time, the madmen have weapons of unimaginable destruction -- and, the will to use them.
But hey, let's not watch anything that might upset someone. Besides, the Big Game is on this weekend. We've got better things to do than "dwell on the negativity". Let's go get some sixpacks and watch the tube.
Bread and circuses -- the time-proven antidote to reality. Guaranteed to keep the meat content -- until it's too late.
Sad to say, too many people in America (indeed, the world) would be inclined to side with the terrorists were it not for films of their atrocities. Note: How many people in the U.S. refuse to believe the progress that is being accomplished in Iraq....BECAUSE THE PRESS REFUSES TO SHOW THEM!
Maybe you don't need to see the beheadings. Sadly, too many people do. Otherwise, they don't believe.
America is in a hypnotic state, secure in the delusion that "it can't happen here", less than three years after it did happen here!
IMO this is in large part due to the ongoing sanitization of the atrocities committed against us.
Orwell is vindicated. The past is being revised on a daily basis, and we'll have hell to pay in the future because of it.