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This is a very interesting article and something to really consider:
John Feffer
Posted October 20, 2008 09:20 AM (EST)
The Art of Torture
Reposted from Foreign Policy In Focus
The pictures from Abu Ghraib have achieved iconic status. The hooded man on the box, his arms outstretched, has superceded the image of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue. The Bush administration will forever be remembered as "the administration that tortured."
Iconic images have a concentrated power. The Abu Ghraib pictures convey, in visual shorthand, a range of messages - the sufferings of all Iraqis under U.S. occupation, the double standards of U.S. human rights policy, the failures of "democracy promotion." They are pictures that are worth a thousand protests. The enduring images from the Vietnam War - the young girl running naked down the street to escape her napalmed village, the bullet-to-the-head execution of a Vietcong officer - acquired the same power of concentration.
But iconic images have their disadvantages, too. Victims of violent crimes frequently talk of feeling victimized all over again when they recount their traumas. Even as we use the images to decry U.S. policy in Iraq, do we continue to torture the detainees from Abu Ghraib when we reproduce the images of their prison abuses?
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