Can Photos From Gaza Help Blaze The Path To Peace? Amy Goodman,
iconic host of the popular independent Pacifica news program,
Democracy Now, has been quoted frequently stating: “I really do
think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true
face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids
blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated..." It's easy
to argue that graphic images of the carnage of war evoke lasting
impressions on those who view them. Few people can forget the
horrific photos from Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic
bomb or the suffering faces and emaciated bodies from the
Holocaust. Indeed some of history's most memorable and haunting
photographic images arise from war. For people of my era, who
lived through the time of Vietnam, the image of naked nine year
old Kim Phuc, running, arms in air, screaming, her back seared
from napalm, is carved into our memories. Many believe as I do,
that Kim's photo, taken by Associated Press photographer Nick
Ut, for which he ear