If people SAW the carnage---actually saw it---they'd REALLY get mad. A LOT would proceed from that anger that would be different than what we have now or what we have seen from 911 until now.
We have seen more of what happened at Pearl Harbor than we have seen of the WTC, where thousands of cameras and miles of tape captured everything for history. The outrage we have is SO out or proportion to what HAPPENED. I imagine if there were a terrorist bombing that killed three or four people in a U.S. city, in a mall or a pizza parlor, once a week for the next 10 years. Can you imagine? Yet, we had something of that magnitude on one day last September. But I think that to most people, it is about as real as a TV-movie. People should see those jumpers hit the pavement and should see the body parts to remember how real this is, how serious, and how important it is that we elminate this threat to our civilization.
One thing is more important to struggle and survival than might or any other factor: WILL. We have to have the will to do what must be done. We had the will against the Nazis, and against imperial Japan. We don't have that will in this conflict. We have to believe that what we have is worth preserving.
Well said. Concealing the true horror saps our ability to become emotionally involved, to develop the sense that it's us, real people, they wish to destroy...