The Washington Post, July 31st, 2003
The debate in the media and in the military about the propriety of publishing the "grisly photos" of Uday and Qusay Hussein [Style, July 25] exposed an irony in our nation's sensibility toward war and its consequences. The ancient Greeks have something to teach us on this score; they displayed no squeamishness about facing the aftereffects of violence and war. They laid out in full view the consequences of brutality. Consider the horrific exposure of the slain Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the blood-soaked bodies of Medea's children and the bleeding eyes of Oedipus. The Greeks, however, refused ...
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