With the thousands of “trophy” pictures out there, Americans are going to be more than willing to believe the worst. Rolling Stone pretty much has license to print the most damaging hearsay their anonymous sources will give them. This will eventually break what’s left of the country’s will to fight this war any longer.
At the appropriate time, when it’s Afghanistan’s turn at the Wheel of Revolution, the MSM will dutifully take this story and run full-tilt with it. I’m guessing this will happen a little closer to Obama’s July withdrawal date, maybe early May. By then, with all hell breaking loose in Afghanistan, the average American will be demanding an end to the conflict and Obama will be more than happy to accommodate them.
From there, the chaos will spread to Pakistan. Shortly thereafter, the world will have a nuclear Taliban.
I hope like hell I’m wrong. But that’s where this appears to be headed.
One must keep in mind that the last eight to ten years have seen the development of digital cameras. Phone cameras, pocket cameras, etc.
In the past, war were fought in areas that were not conducive to the retention and development of film.
In addition, digital technology makes low light and lousy light photos much easier.
One has to wonder what GI photos would have come out of the jungles of WWII and VN had they had the digital technology.
And since most of these men and women are really just kids, without our years of wisdom (and having seen our share of people self destruct doing stupid things) I would expect them to take pictures of everything, and post them on facebook.
Not trying to excuse this, but explain why you see it now—and why it is more shocking that it had been int the past.