Excellent article at this website.
It seems US soldiers in Iraq are sending in pictures of, among other things, Iraqi war dead for free access to porn websites.
The obvious moral and legal implications of this aside, this is a very interesting dilema. Consider the dilemma, a North American public that has become increasingly desensitised to violence through popular media, and a US military who is so highly sensitive of news out of Iraq that the comparatively benign images of flag draped coffins are censored. How can the general public, most of whome never having any military experience, ever hope to truly understand what war is truly about?
Enter Chris Wilson who sells US military personel serving in Iraq access to his pornography website in exchange for pictures of life in Iraq. Naturally some of the pictures are not for the feint of heart, but that's just the point. Life in a war zone isn't either.
What is also interesting in this excercise, besides what happens to a human bodies in such an environment, is the attitude of the military staff who must live in such conditions. It's not just the images that are troubling. So many people treat war and what is going on in Iraq with such a blase' attitude. If these same people were to seriously consider what these images, and what is being communicated by the posters and people in the images are saying, far fewer people would be willing to then wage war.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html
It seems US soldiers in Iraq are sending in pictures of, among other things, Iraqi war dead for free access to porn websites.
The obvious moral and legal implications of this aside, this is a very interesting dilema. Consider the dilemma, a North American public that has become increasingly desensitised to violence through popular media, and a US military who is so highly sensitive of news out of Iraq that the comparatively benign images of flag draped coffins are censored. How can the general public, most of whome never having any military experience, ever hope to truly understand what war is truly about?
Enter Chris Wilson who sells US military personel serving in Iraq access to his pornography website in exchange for pictures of life in Iraq. Naturally some of the pictures are not for the feint of heart, but that's just the point. Life in a war zone isn't either.
What is also interesting in this excercise, besides what happens to a human bodies in such an environment, is the attitude of the military staff who must live in such conditions. It's not just the images that are troubling. So many people treat war and what is going on in Iraq with such a blase' attitude. If these same people were to seriously consider what these images, and what is being communicated by the posters and people in the images are saying, far fewer people would be willing to then wage war.
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2005-09-21/news/news.html