"Maybe I can inspire the person that can" — IED casualty and war photographer, Giles Duley's words

© 2021 Peter Free

 

29 March 2021

 

 

Proportionately, there are not many of us . . .

 

. . . speaking out against Forever War and the evils that the imperialistic American Plutocracy initiate.

 

 

But there are a few

 

Eloquently so, for instance, IED blast casualty, triple amputee and war photographer, Giles Duley:

 

 

LADbibleTV, Photos of The World's Most Dangerous Places, Minutes with [Giles Duley], YouTube (25 October 2021)

 

 

Duley closed the above video clip . . .

 

. . . with the words:

 

 

You know, someone asked me once, "Do you think you can change the world with your photographs?"

 

And I said — "No. But maybe I can inspire the person that can."

 

 

In the United States, the people "that can" — don't

 

Every president from the beginnings of the Vietnam War on, has been a war criminal. Every one.

 

And every combatant commander and every Congress — who aided these presidents and the Military Industrial Complex with their war 'criminaling' — has been also.

 

 

Cultural evil's banality lies exactly in how easily we . . .

 

. . . bury "who can change the world" questions beneath rampaging Avarice and unempathic Dross.

 

 

The moral? — You want to know why I hold decades of American leadership in hostile contempt?

 

Giles Duley implied the only answer that matters:

 

 

The ones who can, don't.

 

On purpose.

 

 

We kill, maim and starve other people's kids for profit.