“Look, the photographs say, this is what it’s like. This is what war does, too. War tears, rends. War rips open, eviscerates. War scorches. War dismembers. War ruins.
Not to be pained by these pictures, not to recoil from them, not to strive to abolish what causes this havoc, this carnage--these [...] would be the reactions of a moral monster. And [...] we are not monsters, we members of the educated class. Our failure is one of imagination, of empathy: we have failed to hold this reality in mind” (Susan Sontag 2003, NY: Picador, 8).
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