By 'evasion' I meant those who could or would evade moral responsibility by
claiming that it was somehow necessary or inevitable in the pursuit of the war,
as in the the earlier image of the execution of an enemy prisoner. It was not
possible to evade the reality of the immorality of this war in this case by
claiming however foolishly that the victim somehow deserved their fate.
I recently chatted to the photog who was standing next to Nick Ut when he took
the picture and who also shot the incident - but failed to get the iconic
image. What is not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry is that the photogs
immediately arranged for the transfer of Kim Phuc to a hospital and that within
days a German photo organised a transfer to a military hospital, thus ensuring
that she survived. They are all in regular contact with her.
Andrew Fildes
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On 08/12/2013, at 9:03 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>> And I suspect that Nick Ut's image of the napalmed child had an even
>> stronger impact - there was no evasion possible there.
>
> Evasion? What evasion? War is now and always has been a hell on earth.
> Probably always will be, too. You fight a war, you're going to hurt people,
> and not always the people you intend to hurt. Strong impact or not, the image
> has not diminished war in the least. War porn, like just-plain porn,
> flourishes. People get all incensed and crawl up on their high horses and
> condemn this and condemn that and yet somehow the same twisted bastards keep
> doing the same twisted things.
>
> But I am old and sick of this crap, and genuinely understand why immortality
> is not something to be desired.
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