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...everyone agrees. "Does a movie change policy? Change behavior? Do movies have an influence on people? Of course they do! Who would argue otherwise?" says Morris, whose documentary Standard Operating Procedure, an examination of the Abu Ghraib prison photographs, comes out April 25. Morris has reason to believe in the persuasive power of cinema: his 1988 film about the murder of a police officer, The Thin Blue Line, got a man out of prison. Most movies' legacies are trickier to measure, however. In a TIME poll of 1,002 registered voters, about 30% of respondents said a movie had changed...
...recalcitrance is partly political. "After Iraq, after Abu Ghraib, after Guantanamo, it is very, very difficult for Germans to agree to put their troops under U.S. command, " says Henning Riecke, a security specialist at the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin who advocates sending more German troops to Afghanistan. "Most Germans don't like the U.S. way of doing war." Germany, like many European countries, is also arguing that more emphasis be placed on reconstruction and less on combat, although some acknowledge that the two are not always separable. There has to be a peace to keep...
...expertise, they are also detached from the moral and legal oversight that is (hopefully) associated with the U.S. military. At certain points during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has not lived up to those standards, but the checks exist, as the trials of Abu Ghraib officers and alleged murders in the military demonstrate. For Blackwater, legal repercussions have been essentially nonexistent since 2004, when L. Paul Bremer, then the head administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority, granted private contractors a complicated immunity scheme. While the order was supposedly not intended to give contractors...
...career to advocating legislation to curb pornography and representing former porn actresses in suing for damages. In her speech Monday, MacKinnon went straight for shock tactics, suggesting that society is wrong to consider porn harmless when it produces images as bad as those that came out of Abu Ghraib. To be sure, there are many aspects of pornography that are distasteful and destructive. The sort of violent pornography that treats women exclusively as subordinate objects, for instance, reveals a disturbing element of sexual desire. Yet, however tacky or disgusting we may find it, we should recognize that most porn...
...happens is rendered harmless and unreal,” said MacKinnon, who was invited by the Committee on Women, Gender, and Sexuality and by the College’s Women’s Center. MacKinnon said that though the American public was horrified by photographs of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the material was actually mild by pornographic standards. She argued that the same images, framed in a pornographic context, would never have inspired the same horror. “The notion that everything that happens in pornography is consensual is just that: an assumption...