So Amusingly Unaware
[guest post by Dana]
We haven’t heard from TourĂ© lately, but tonight he provides us with a fun bit of irony. Per usual, he appears utterly unaware and clueless:
TOURE NEBLETT: Another week, another video of a beheading by those media-savvy savages at ISIS. Another video the vast majority of us will never see. Our government and media shield us from being able to see anything more than a slide. Part of what’s so shocking here is, we’re not used to seeing horrific things happen to American bodies overseas. For the first several years of the Iraq war we weren’t allowed to see flag-draped coffins, so it seemed like a war without American deaths. We’re blocked from seeing too much of the cost of war, of the evil of war, as if we are too sensitive or too squeamish or just unable to handle the graphic truth. Part of what makes ISIS so barbaric is not simply the beheadings, but trying to force us to see them, forcing us to see how evil war can be, thus breaking the unstated modern contract that war should be conducted largely out of public view.
Our government seems to say let them see some of it but not the truly messy parts. We learned in Vietnam seeing too much erodes public support. So out of Iraq we get stories like that out of photo-journalist Kenneth Jarecke was in Iraq in 1991 during the first Gulf War who happened upon an Iraqi in a truck who had been burned beyond recognition, almost man frozen in the midst of dying. Ken said “if I don’t make pictures like this, people like my mother will think what they see in war is what they see in movies.” So he took a graphic photo, which he called Incinerated Iraqi.
You see a man almost frozen in the midst of dying, a man charred beyond belief. The AP did not transmit his photo, judging too much for even editors to see. The London Observer published it and later it ended up in a traveling museum exhibit of images from war. But it was one of many images that are kept from us. Incinerated Iraqi is so graphic I can’t even show it to you now. . .
–Dana
Hello.
Dana (4dbf62) — 9/16/2014 @ 8:08 pmi seen that incinerated iraqi pic
it was ok
but i seen better in movies
happyfeet (a785d5) — 9/16/2014 @ 8:13 pmYou can see the picture here: http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/08/the-war-photo-no-one-would-publish/375762/
Denver Todd (355f7b) — 9/16/2014 @ 8:19 pmyup that’s where i saw it
and I thought my goodness
they gonna see us from outer space
light it up, like we’re the stars of the human race
cause we got the fire fire fire 🙂
and we gonna let it burn burn burn burn
happyfeet (a785d5) — 9/16/2014 @ 8:30 pmAll I can assume is that TourĂ© is the most sheltered and ignorant person who has ever lived.
Ag80 (eb6ffa) — 9/16/2014 @ 8:58 pmTourĂ© is a walking talking moron. On his best day.
JD (933358) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:07 pmi’d publish the picture far and wide, with a caption that said “Do you REALLY want to F with the USA?
but i’m hopelessly old school like that.
redc1c4, old school track rat (abd49e) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:11 pmFor the first several years of the Iraq war we weren’t allowed to see flag-draped coffins, so it seemed like a war without American deaths.
Naw, dipstick, you could have dragged your radical rear end out to a military funeral where you would have seen a flag-draped coffin. You were just mad because the left couldn’t exploit our dead soldiers for anti-war propaganda, even if it brought extra pain and suffering to the departed’s families.
JVW (638245) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:11 pmthe purpose of war is to instill in the survivors on the OPFOR side a strong desire to never cross you again, coupled with policies that make it clear being your friend has benefits not available elsewhere.
BamBam isn’t bright enough to grasp that koan.
redc1c4, old school track rat (abd49e) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:21 pmmore so that Obumbles?
that’s a hard call.
redc1c4 (abd49e) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:22 pmIt’s actually ISIS/ISIL/IS/Daesh that’s hiding the gruesomeness from us. The hiding that is happening here is actually from us that ISIS is hiding it, because the videos are mostly as real as Hollywood.
People imagine a camera has been set up on a tripod and is running automatically.
The videos don’t actually show the executions – you have to read the news articles carefully to realize that.
The knife in the BEFORE picture of the Foley execution is too small – and it is not the same knofe seen on the AFTER picture.
And the person holding the knife in the video is probably not the executioner. That person – and maybe a crowd of armed men – is probably there off camera.
And the execution is probably a lot more painful and time consuming than we are being led to believe by ISIS.
Sammy Finkelman (e4c3a1) — 9/16/2014 @ 9:35 pmLife magazine ran a photo of the head of a Japanese soldier that had died in flame and had been placed on a tank or such. It was far more gruesome than that picture. The man died screaming and it was quite obvious. This picture was rather tame by comparison.
machinist (313c6a) — 9/16/2014 @ 10:25 pmThank you for following Neblett so I don’thave to.
firefirefire (2844e9) — 9/17/2014 @ 4:42 amSomeone should tell Toure that all the images he wants to see are available online if he chooses to see them.
DejectedHead (9b0c64) — 9/17/2014 @ 6:54 am