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In Linnet Myers` dispatch from Riyadh (Feb. 28) an ”angry” British colonel is quoted as saying that he is not interested in discussing the
”pornography” of war with the press in response to questions about enemy deaths on the battlefield. Also I notice that one doesn`t see piles of enemy dead on TV or in the print media as we have in previous wars.
It seems to me publication of these photographs would be a severe warning to those still militant in the Middle East not to mess with their neighbors.
And I do not think that Joyce Kilmer`s poetry or the recent Civil War series on PBS, both of which portray and graphically picture death on the battlefield, are pornographic. The latter is a lesson against war.
