primitives discuss this week's Time magazine cover

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Oh my.

Robb   (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-29-10 01:16 PM
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Time Magazine's cover this week.

It is graphic, and disturbing, and I will not repost it here. You can visit it here, where it is small enough to look away or click if you want to see it larger.

But the editor's story about choosing is is also worth a read, I think. And I believe the decision to run it would be an excellent topic of discussion here.

Our cover image this week is powerful, shocking and disturbing. It is a portrait of Aisha, a shy 18-year-old Afghan woman who was sentenced by a Taliban commander to have her nose and ears cut off for fleeing her abusive in-laws. Aisha posed for the picture and says she wants the world to see the effect a Taliban resurgence would have on the women of Afghanistan, many of whom have flourished in the past few years. Her picture is accompanied by a powerful story by our own Aryn Baker on how Afghan women have embraced the freedoms that have come from the defeat of the Taliban — and how they fear a Taliban revival.

I thought long and hard about whether to put this image on the cover of TIME. First, I wanted to make sure of Aisha's safety and that she understood what it would mean to be on the cover. She knows that she will become a symbol of the price Afghan women have had to pay for the repressive ideology of the Taliban. We also confirmed that she is in a secret location protected by armed guards and sponsored by the NGO Women for Afghan Women. Aisha will head to the U.S. for reconstructive surgery sponsored by the Grossman Burn Foundation, a humanitarian organization in California. We are supporting that effort.

(snip)

The much publicized release of classified documents by WikiLeaks has already ratcheted up the debate about the war. Our story and the haunting cover image by the distinguished South African photographer Jodi Bieber are meant to contribute to that debate. We do not run this story or show this image either in support of the U.S. war effort or in opposition to it. We do it to illuminate what is actually happening on the ground. As lawmakers and citizens begin to sort through the information about the war and make up their minds, our job is to provide context and perspective on one of the most difficult foreign policy issues of our time. What you see in these pictures and our story is something that you cannot find in those 91,000 documents: a combination of emotional truth and insight into the way life is lived in that difficult land and the consequences of the important decisions that lie ahead.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007269,0...

"Emotional truth and insight." Is that sincere? Or is it another way to talk about propaganda?

Put another way: is Time attempting to offer "balance" where none is needed?

Well now, the primitives shouldn't have any problem with the cover, or with the fate of the girl.

After all, the primitives opposed everything George Bush did, in trying to make Afghanistan a civilized society.

rfranklin  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jul-29-10 01:21 PM
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1. There are plenty of other atrocities you can find around the world...

However, in most cases those atrocities are not used to justify wars of aggression. In fact, in most cases no one gives a shit.

That's right.  The primitives didn't give a shit about the oppressed of Iraq either, when George Bush tried to get them un-oppressed.

zipplewrath  (1000+ posts)      Thu Jul-29-10 01:21 PM
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2. Taliban are Afghans

It is important to realize that the Taliban basically aren't an invading force (as we are) but a relatively indigeous group of people attempting to gain power. It is in essence one component of a civil war. As much as we might not want the Taliban in charge, the only people who can stop that are the Afghans themselves. We no more belong there than we do between the Hezbollah and Hamas.

Run the photo, don't run the photo, I can only care so much. But that photo has little if anything to do with whether or not we are there.

[thundley4]

I looked at the picture, it would have fit in with many of the DUmmie picture threads.  That being said, the picture isn't so disgusting as the DUmmies attitudes towards what they will tolerate for the sake of "peace".

[Karin]

bigtree  (1000+ posts)        Thu Jul-29-10 01:33 PM
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14. with TIME, it's all about selling and promoting the conservative agenda

   

Seriously, though.  If you feel like being wholly disgusted with those creatures over there, read their thread.  So much moral equivocation, mutual reassuring, and US bashing.  I hates the DUmbfux. 

[Ballygrl]

That's very interesting, it's interesting because Time has always been a mouthpiece for Democrats, this cover was most likely done to shut the Progressives up.

[dandi]

That's very interesting, it's interesting because Time has always been a mouthpiece for Democrats, this cover was most likely done to shut the Progressives up.

Either that or someone got a bit of a guilty conscience.

[Chris_]

Time is merely pushing the 'humanitarian' angle now that Obama is Commander in Chief, unlike Bush's imperialist empire-building.

[miskie]

Time is merely pushing the 'humanitarian' angle now that Obama is Commander in Chief, unlike Bush's imperialist empire-building.

Thats it exactly -- Time magazine is a Democrat's friend. After the WikiLeaks document dump that will very quickly turn the mushy middle against what is now Obama's war, Time needed to do something to back the Obama administration --This administration has made it clear that they have no intention of leaving Afghanistan anytime soon.

During the Bush years, the liberal media told everyone that the reason for being in Afghanistan was Bush intended to use the country as a place to run an oil pipeline ( even though the country has no oil ) -- and now that Obama is in charge, we are there for humanitarian reasons.

[Ballygrl]

Either that or someone got a bit of a guilty conscience.

If Progressives had a guilty conscience and really cared? they'd be over in the Middle East protesting women being stoned, having acid thrown in their faces, forced to stay home and not go to school or work, they'd be in Africa protesting female genital mutilation, and protesting the Governments forcing people who happen to be black, to starve to death while they enrich themselves.

This Time cover was done for 1 reason and 1 reason only, to keep Obama from falling further in the polls because of Progressives deserting him, and to get Progressives supporting the mission in Afghanistan.

[Ballygrl]

Thats it exactly -- Time magazine is a Democrat's friend. After the WikiLeaks document dump that will very quickly turn the mushy middle against what is now Obama's war, Time needed to do something to back the Obama administration --This administration has made it clear that they have no intention of leaving Afghanistan anytime soon.

During the Bush years, the liberal media told everyone that the reason for being in Afghanistan was Bush intended to use the country as a place to run an oil pipeline ( even though the country has no oil ) -- and now that Obama is in charge, we are there for humanitarian reasons.

Good point about the "mushy middle", Obama can't afford to lose more of their support, and Afghanistan's failure would happen on his watch.

[dutch508]

let me see if I get this right.

The DUmpmonkiez support the taliban cutting off pieces of this girl because she left her abusive parents?

I am suprised they haven't condemed the US for forcing the taliban to take this drastic action by freeing the people of Afghanistan from their rule.

[jukin]

Sometimes the DUchabags really disgust me. 

[JohnnyReb]

let me see if I get this right.

The DUmpmonkiez support the taliban cutting off pieces of this girl because she left her abusive parents?

I am suprised they haven't condemed the US for forcing the taliban to take this drastic action by freeing the people of Afghanistan from their rule.

Hey man, remember that the DUmmies have those under their "great tent" that consider extreme body modification to be a thing of beauty...and if it keeps them  from having a decent job then someone should pay them...you know, diability maybe.