Comments on: NSJ Analysis: WikiLeaks and Jus in Bello: Room for a Congressional Response? http://harvardnsj.org/2010/04/nsj-analysis-applying-the-law-of-armed-conflict-to-wikileaks/ Just another WordPress site Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:04:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chris http://harvardnsj.org/2010/04/nsj-analysis-applying-the-law-of-armed-conflict-to-wikileaks/#comment-48 Chris Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:13:08 +0000 http://www.harvardnsj.com/?p=1050#comment-48 "the video is sure to harm some number of “innocents” as well, as the video will no doubt provide an unquantifiable amount of propaganda that can be used by existing terrorist organizations for recruitment purposes." In other words, the U.S. military's own video of its soldiers gunning down unarmed journalists and passersby on a Baghdad street must be kept from public view because its release will provide grist for the al Qaida propaganda mill. This argument is too morally bankrupt to warrant a reply beyond the simple summary above. The way not to provide grist for al Qaida's propaganda mill is to stop bombing and invading Muslim countries, to stop imprisoning and torturing Muslims for years on end without charges, and to stop committing massacres such as this one. “the video is sure to harm some number of “innocents” as well, as the video will no doubt provide an unquantifiable amount of propaganda that can be used by existing terrorist organizations for recruitment purposes.”

In other words, the U.S. military’s own video of its soldiers gunning down unarmed journalists and passersby on a Baghdad street must be kept from public view because its release will provide grist for the al Qaida propaganda mill.

This argument is too morally bankrupt to warrant a reply beyond the simple summary above.

The way not to provide grist for al Qaida’s propaganda mill is to stop bombing and invading Muslim countries, to stop imprisoning and torturing Muslims for years on end without charges, and to stop committing massacres such as this one.

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