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Susan Sontag, in an essay for the New York Times Magazine on Abu Ghraib ("Regarding the Torture of Others," May 23), says some true things about the unquenchability of images in the digital age, mixed in with the sweeping assertion that the torture flowed organically from the Iraq war, and from the War on Terror in general ("the photographs are us").(The Week)(Brief Article)

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* Susan Sontag, in an essay for the New York Times Magazine on Abu Ghraib ("Regarding the Torture of Others," May 23), says some true things about the unquenchability of images in the digital age, mixed in with the sweeping assertion that the torture flowed organically from the Iraq war, and from the War on Terror in general ("the photographs are us"). But she is both too sweeping, and not sweeping enough. Torture and other war crimes ...

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