Slain US ambassador Stevens a Courageous and Humble Envoy to Arabs: Should Media Show Pictures of Ambassador's Body?
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2012/09/13 19:00:00
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Islamic supremacists murdered American Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi, Libya. Ambassador Stevens risked his life to help the people of Libya form a better country, to protect their rights, to stabilize their nation, and generally improve their lives. They returned his kindness with murder and possibly torture before his death (according to recent reports.)
Pictures of Stevens' beaten and bloody body dragged by a Libya mob have circulated. It sickens me to see his body intentionally humiliated by the enemy of Western civilization. The alleged worshipers of the religion of peace brutally murdered him and want to use his corpse as propaganda in the war against our values. They want to intimidate us and undermine our values.
On the other hand, the media has the responsibility to show the truth. They have the job to inform -- not cast judgment or censor themselves too much. Showing the pictures helps Westerners know the evil that our enemy (the radical Islamic supremacists) possesses. It demonstrates the extreme measures they will use to defeat us. They do not want peace. They would not accept our surrender: only conversion to Islam or death. They seek to destroy, not build.
Should the news media show the pictures of Ambassador's Stevens' dead body? Does it help Western values? Does it hurt the dignity of Chris Stevens? The Stevens family? Does it undermine America's strength and aid the enemy?
Note: These Islamic supremacists don't represent all Muslims. We all know that. I shouldn't have to write it, but I know many Muslim sympathizers will rush to protect the good people/side of Islam before the Muslims themselves will condemn the evil radicals that murder in the name of their religion. With over 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, the good Muslims must fight the radical element. If the fringe amounted to only 1%, that would still amount to 16 million radicals.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM reports:
Pictures of Stevens' beaten and bloody body dragged by a Libya mob have circulated. It sickens me to see his body intentionally humiliated by the enemy of Western civilization. The alleged worshipers of the religion of peace brutally murdered him and want to use his corpse as propaganda in the war against our values. They want to intimidate us and undermine our values.
On the other hand, the media has the responsibility to show the truth. They have the job to inform -- not cast judgment or censor themselves too much. Showing the pictures helps Westerners know the evil that our enemy (the radical Islamic supremacists) possesses. It demonstrates the extreme measures they will use to defeat us. They do not want peace. They would not accept our surrender: only conversion to Islam or death. They seek to destroy, not build.
Should the news media show the pictures of Ambassador's Stevens' dead body? Does it help Western values? Does it hurt the dignity of Chris Stevens? The Stevens family? Does it undermine America's strength and aid the enemy?
Note: These Islamic supremacists don't represent all Muslims. We all know that. I shouldn't have to write it, but I know many Muslim sympathizers will rush to protect the good people/side of Islam before the Muslims themselves will condemn the evil radicals that murder in the name of their religion. With over 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, the good Muslims must fight the radical element. If the fringe amounted to only 1%, that would still amount to 16 million radicals.
WASHINGTONPOST.COM reports:
At the height of Libya’s civil war, Chris Stevens dashed off to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi by cargo boat to help shape an assortment of Libyan politicians and militias into the cohesive unit that would defeat Moammar Gadhafi. A year-and-a-half later, the 52-year-old ambassador died as Islamists attacked a U.S. Consulate in the same city.
Read More: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-secur...
Top Opinion
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sickofpolitics 2012/09/13 19:03:13Yes, there's truth in reporting
+15That might wake up the idiots and supporters of the Fraud in Chief. This is what happenss when you support savages!!!
just keep lapping at yer dogbowl as AMERICANs are killed. Head down, ass up
c'mon... another music major who couldn't cut it.. another Liberal artist who sucked and is reduced to being a Government drone.
Ever think it was all BUSCHITT.. y'know the music thing.. just an avenue to trap you in a would of unreality...
heh heh heh...
failure leads to denial, and denial leads to resentment.. and well... here you are looking down yer nose at other to feel better about yer failed self.
You are now part of the machine... you sold your soul long ago
it takes a higher level of PROGRAMMING...
yer masters OWN you...and you are scared to look them in the face,,,
it was all a LIE
As expected.
I'm a bit confused about "You don't care what I think or you would STFU". Please explain because - baseless claim aside - it doesn't seem to make any sense.
I'm seeing a pattern here.
go the next chapter... and this time with feeling
now run along until your next instructions
Do all of you go to stupid school.... Let me guess... You were an arts major.. And now look at ya....
Should have got a clue by now that, seeing as I doubt this was a career choice, that LIBERALISM is total freaking donkey dung....
Stop rationalizing for losers... They are traitors to your country and you should be better than that
If so, I'll stop laughing at you.
heh heh heh
However, I would like to know what Obama is thinking about the brutal dead or our ambassador?
We get that you don't like Obama. That's okay. I don't like him that much either. But here's a word of advice: Stick to criticizing his actual mistakes and wrongdoings, in a calm and intelligent manner.
Ranting that "Obummer" (how old are you? Five?) is "celebrating another dead American with his Muslim BrotherHood" on THIS poll just makes you look really, really retarded (and frankly, disgusting), and it makes it impossible for me to take you seriously - and then you go on a random rant about "putting blame" and "lying" and "killing countrymen" (I'm German, btw) and laughably pull the accusation that it is my "job" to defend Obama and Clinton (when did I do that?) out of your ass, proving my point further:
You are not to be taken seriously.
i'm going to make a film for that and further incite his savage Islamic brethren
Sorry.
thats why yer here...
SUCKER
We do not need to use Chris Stevens' dead body to prove anything. It shouldn't even be up to his family to decide to show the pictures to the world, it should be up to Chris himself and he is no longer here.
savages