>> In any event, the soldiers in Iraq were behaving more in accord with
>> the
>> ethics of Foucault and Zizek than with those of Aristotle and Kant,
>> weren't they?
>
> "Of the modes of persuasion some are technical, others non-technical.
> By
> the latter I mean such things as are not supplied by the speaker but
> are
> there at the outset -- witnesses, evidence given under torture, written
> contracts, and so on."
>
> Aristotle, _Rhetoric_, Book I, 1355, 36-38.
>
It's torture for fun, torture as an end in itself, that's at issue Michael. "In most of the pictures, the Americans are laughing, posing, pointing, or giving the camera a thumbs-up."
There's also a Canadian case with movies and photographs.
<http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-71-723-4318/conflict_war/somalia/clip8>
Ted