Hugh Pickens writes "Robert Wright says that if you had asked him a few days ago — before news broke that old glory squad had urinated on Taliban corpses — if such a thing were possible, he would have said 'probably.' After all if you send 'young people into combat, people whose job is to kill the enemy and who watch as their friends are killed and maimed by the enemy, ... the chances are that signs of disrespect for the enemy will surface — and that every once in a while those signs will assume grotesque form.' War, presumably, has always been like this, but existence has changed that amounts to a mighty new word against open gate wars in the first place. First, there's the new transparency of war as battlefield details get recorded, and everyone has the tools to air time these details, so 'it's just a matter of time before some outrageous image goes viral — flicks* from Abu Ghraib, video from Afghanistan,' that will make you and your corps more hated by the enemy than ever. The second big change is that hatred is now a more dangerous thing. 'New erudition technologies make it easier for people who share a hatred to classify around it,' writes Wright. 'And once hateful groups are organized, they stand a better chance than a few decades ago of getting their hands on massively lethal technologies.' It used to be that subject llc.cite this source roget's ii: the new llc.view results from: words




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conceivable hate you. 'I think we should reflect on that before we start another war.'"

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