Ghoul: n.
One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome.
A grave robber.
An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses
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GhoulBy lex, on September 7th, 2005
September 7th, 2005 | Tags: iran, Politics and Culture | Category: Uncategorized
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Clearly the NYT needs some lessons in military logistics.
Choice – do we;
a) move a dozen civilians from one place to another, temporarily making them more comfortable;
or b) supply hundreds of military personnel to allow them to assist thousands of civilians.
The JOs probably thought they were doing the right thing, at the time it may have seemed so, but perhaps the big picture was lacking.
In any event, maybe the NYT should just keep their flabby windbags silent when it comes to operational matters.
I have always thought that we americans were sheltered from the realities of life. Yet, I am double minded (useless as THAT is) about whether death-and-dismemberment should be displayed or hidden. I think a little touch of reality (dead bodies) would be educational to those who tend to romanticize (select your grim subject). I found the film “Death on the Highway” to be inspirational enough to my (then) teenage mind to temper my driving at a critical time in my life. So why don’t we now see the remains of suicide bombers and the aftermath or their terror? The news is so sterile as to be useless for deterrence (or education). I believe the romaticizing of (NAME YOUR CONFLICT) and call them (name your patriot/freedom fighter/group) WITHOUT showing the consequences of their lunacy only aids and abets their cause……
Don’t disagree in principle, Joe – but I’ve got this little problem with the terrible invasion of a person’s last privacy for the explicit purpose of using that photograph to further inflame a domestic political firebombing. It’s just reprehensible.
Not to mention that these are the same folks (in many cases) who nodded their heads in thoughtful agreement when the mainstream news networks decided that we, the people weren’t nuanced enough to watch scenes of people casting themselves to their deaths to escape the flames of the World Trade Center. Those images, while gruesome, were not at least explicitly political – and they were far more instructive.
Lex – I agree with you. I watched one of the beheading videos (one was enough) to cement in my head the kind of enemies we face.
These pictures are ghoulish, because they are simply victims of tragedy, whether from the elements or from human animals. To use their images to make political hay against the administration would be wrong *Even If* the points made were true. Since the post is full of wrong-headed stupidity, it is an even bigger travesty.