From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 01:47:02 MST
I wrote
> > How strange. Alex was interested in getting stills or
> > video about the POW situation, and you've substituted
> > for that info about Iraqi civilian casualties.
> > Oh well... at least I think I understand your motivation
> > for the switch.
and Damien replies
> What part of
>
> HERE ARE TWO PLACES I'D EXPECT TO FIND SOME STILLS, BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO
> HAVE ANY EITHER
>
> do you find hard to understand?
>
> My adding some extra information about what *is* there
> ISN'T A *SWITCH*,
It is too. And that you can't see it speaks volumes. All I'll
say is that if the situation were reversed and someone posted
an inquiry for data concerning Iraqi civilian casualties, it
would be a cold day in hell before I'd direct them to a site
showing the poor American POWs.
There is a partisan component to most of these discussions.
It's always possible that the inquiry after pictures or
video of the American POWs was partly designed to elicit
some pro-American emotion, (though not necessarily, of course),
and there is no doubt that a minor effect of that among our
readers would be supportive of the Americans. It absolutely
passeth understanding that you are not aware of this.
Therefore, I can't help but entertain the idea that many of my
opposite political numbers feel they have special dispensation,
and while a switch from emphasizing the horrors inflicted on
Iraqi casualties to emphasizing the horrors visited on American
POWs would be viewed by them as calculatedly partisan, the exact
same thing from their side is viewed as nothing even notable.
Lee
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