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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman
Where are the battlefield photos would turn the American people against war on a dime?
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Battlefield photos? I thought the Bush adminstration was prohibiting photos of flag-draped coffins.
On the other hand . . .the whole thing about going forward with "open eyes" is tricky. I imagine, if we had full disclosure about the collateral consequences of everything we do, we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. Or we would because we wouldn't care about the people whose ox was being gored.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court upheld Congress's criminalization of an abortion method because of how nasty it was, which it explained in excruciating detail. This was not an undue burden on abortion because other methods were available that the statute did not reach. Of course, the court detailed some of these as well, so we pretty much know how it will decide other cases that attack the method but not the right. This is the same way that challenges to execution methods are being litigated; the right to execute is not challenged, just the nasty way it's implemented.
So, whether the question is abortion, capital punishment or a, for the sake of argument, just war, how much weight in the debate should the evidence that is likely to provoke the most emotional response be given?