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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: jcky who wrote (36133)8/6/2002 2:45:00 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
Body bags, war images...At the beginning of the US presence in Viet Nam, there was plenty of film piped home on the news. The horror of viewing the war seeing American boys bleeding, hearing them scream turned so many undecided Americans against it that war footage on the nightly news was discontinued. Did you notice that the only war footage from the last Iraq Attack was a repeat of the same missile lighting up the purported sky of Iraq interspersed with another view. They didn't show films of the foot soldiers, it was stills. For that matter, do we see American soldiers fighting in Afghanistan being dragged off to be flayed by the Taliban, then mercifully shot by their own troops. NO. That kind of film is contraband because families of soldiers would be opposed to war, and volunteers just wouldn't. This war is going to be a hard sell. Probably there will need to be another "terrorist attack" within the US to fire up American ire.
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