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A Mighty Heart Review

posted 15 years ago by coldsteel7
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I have a confession to make. I don't know what possessed me to do it...but I watched the Daniel Pearl video on an Arabic website immediately following his murder. It was singularlyTHE most disturbing thing I have ever witnessed. If I had it to do over again, I would undo watching that video. Although it stoked the fire inside of me, bringing home the brutality of the terrorists who mean our country harm, it contained imagery that will be forever seared on my brain. As a young Marine, we were shown all of the Faces of Death episodes to numb us to this sort of thing...Faces of Death doesn't come close to that video.

In that frame of mind, I brought myself to watch A Mighty Heartwith a heavy heart at the inhumane destruction of Daniel Pearl's life. When I hear people talk about Abu Graib or Guantanamo Bay with words like inhumane, I want to force those people to watch the Pearl video. A senseless killing that brings new meaning to malice. I watched A Mighty Heart with interest...watching events unfold that are not far removed from current events.

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http://flickrater.blogspot.com/2009/02/mighty-heart.html

[–] ghigau 15 years ago

The murder of Pearl was unhuman and brutal. Pearl, and Israeli, stopped last in Israel to meet with his Mossad handlers. His cover as a business writer was far too thin. He walked into enemy territory, and it cost him his life in a most ghastly way. It was a tragedy, but a rather predictable tragedy.