Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Revisiting our Past
What if, in 1945, the America government, fully aware of the horrors of Nazi Germany and their slaughter of European Jewry, simply drove Germany back to it's pre-war borders, declared "enough is enough", and decided to leave the Germans to sort out their internal "mess".
Consider this horror:
Then her arms were bound behind her back....And so Iraq today has horrors and unbound evil of its own. Yet are we to withdraw our troops now and leave Iraq to those described above, so we can get back to our fast-food and reality TV? And Americans who advocate such a plan claim moral authority? I am truly ashamed to be an American today, and I can only express my regret to the Greatest Generation.
By the time filming begins, the condemned woman has been blindfolded with a white bandage. It is stained with blood that trickles from a wound on the left side of her head. She is moaning, although whether from the pain of what has already been done to her or from the fear of what is about to be inflicted is unclear.
A large man dressed in military fatigues, boots and cap approaches from behind and covers her mouth with his left hand. In his right hand, he clutches a large knife with a black handle and an 8in blade. He proceeds to cut her throat from the middle, slicing from side to side....
Her executioner suddenly stands up, his job only half done. A second man in a dark T-shirt and camouflage trousers places his right khaki boot on her abdomen and pushes down hard eight times, forcing a rush of blood from her wounds as she moves her head from right to left.
Only now does the executioner return to finish the task. He hacks off her head and drops it to the ground, then picks it up again and perches it on her bare chest so that it faces the film-maker in a grotesque parody of one of her pieces to camera.
