{"id":958,"date":"2006-06-15T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=958"},"modified":"2006-06-15T04:45:13","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T04:45:13","slug":"the-cold-logic-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=958","title":{"rendered":"The Cold Logic of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is curious that it&#8217;s ok to blanket images of a dead enemy across all the news stations and newspapaers in the nation, yet if you use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/main\/mt-archives\/005249.php\">images of torture on a movie advertisement <\/a>it&#8217;s considered distasteful and possibly harmful to children.  The movie poster gets censored yet real life, hard core fact, is available for everyone to see.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I get the whole idea of seeing an Enemy of the State get what&#8217;s coming to him.  Revenge is not a concept lost on me.  Yet the entire action is very &#8220;head on a pike and displayed in front of the castle&#8221;.  A grotesque warning to all those who would follow his footsteps.  Aren&#8217;t we supposed to be better than that?  Or am I a naive idealist?<\/p>\n<p>Then there&#8217;s the government&#8217;s media muzzle on any images of US casualities of war.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005279.php\">How are we to comprehend the harsh realities of this war if we don&#8217;t realize those who paid the ultimate price<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>That whole business smells of an &#8220;out of sight, out of mind&#8221; mentality that&#8217;s downright deceptive and cruel to the survivors.  Their loved ones were at the front lines, the least we can do is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/mt-archives\/005098.php\">acknowledge the fallen soldiers and not hide behind cold numbers of casualty reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just trying to sort it all out in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is curious that it&#8217;s ok to blanket images of a dead enemy across all the news stations and newspapaers in the nation, yet if you use images of torture on a movie advertisement it&#8217;s considered distasteful and possibly harmful to children. The movie poster gets censored yet real life, hard core fact, is available [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-too-many-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}