June 2, 2004
Dignity
In a telly interview the other day, a spokesman for the Department of Defense was making the case for their policy of “no photos” of the flag-draped coffins of those killed in Iraq. After emphatically protesting over and over that the policy has nothing at all to do with politics, he finally said that the most important reason is that such publicity is altogether “unwarranted and undignified.”
As if war is not.