Too Sensitive

Gary Cruse notes a news item which isn’t making the news.

"THE video only lasts four minutes or so — grue some (sic) scenes of torture from the days when Saddam Hussein’s thugs ruled Abu Ghraib prison. I couldn’t bear to watch, so I walked out until it was over."

...

"In fact, just four or five reporters showed up for the screening at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, which says it got the video via the Pentagon. Fewer wrote about it."

Gary’s concluding comment on the news that isn’t making the news, in comparison to what’s in the news.

"A society too sensitive for arousal to self defense will die. It’s Darwin’s way."

Posted by on 06/17 at 06:07 AM

  1. Amazing, isn’t it, that the news media considers recently-discovered evidence of officially sanctioned torture by U.S. troops to be newsworthy, and yet recently-displayed video of officially sanctioned torture by a notoriously brutal despot who once ruled Iraq is not thought of as news.  I guess you could say this falls under the “man bites dog” vs. “dog bites man” principle - but don’t give up hope!  At the rate things are going, evidence of torture committed by U.S. troops and encouraged by U.S. policy will soon be so ordinary and commonplace that it, too, will fade from the headlines.

    Posted by David Gross  on  06/17  at  10:38 AM

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