{"id":605,"date":"2004-11-16T03:35:13","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T03:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-09-28T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2006-09-28T12:08:53","slug":"the_horror_of_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"The Horror of War, In Our Living Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

None of us know what happened inside the mosque in Fallouja<\/a>. The reality of war – of sending fragments of metal through men’s bodies to injure or kill them is horrible for any sane person.<\/p>\n

It is not the least horrible thing, though.Atrios<\/a> wants to end the war by bringing it home:<\/p>\n

Of course, Kerry was telling the truth about the atrocities in Viet Nam. Every war has atrocities. Now, there’s a new one in Iraq. But it’s too icky to show on tv. Too bad. This war will end when Americans get to see every night at dinner what their sons and daughters are becoming. What the true cost is of those SUVs. If it’s too icky to show, maybe it’s too icky for us to be doing it?<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t want to end the war, but I don’t shy away from the icky parts, either. Any human endeavor involves some level of failure, whether it is heart surgery, rocket science, or war.<\/p>\n

And anyone who has butchered an animal and eaten its meat knows that you can’t have life without the icky parts.<\/p>\n

I won’t engage in ritual condemnation; I don’t know nearly enough about what happened to condemn – and neither do you, nor does anyone commenting on the subject right now.<\/p>\n

There will be an investigation, and it is quite possible, a conviction.<\/p>\n

That’s what makes us different from them. We put our murderers on trial. They put theirs on wall murals.<\/p>\n

I do believe that our military – whose job it is to kill their opponents – does the best job humanely possible to avoid killing those it should not kill. I also know for a fact that there will be errors, tragedy, and wrongdoing.<\/p>\n

We learn from the errors, weep at the tragedy, and bring justice to those who do wrong.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t seem very complex to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

None of us know what happened inside the mosque in Fallouja. The reality of war – of sending fragments of metal through men’s bodies to injure or kill them is horrible for any sane person. It is not the least horrible thing, though.Atrios wants to end the war by bringing it home: Of course, Kerry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}