Truth, but Not the Whole Truth

The Wikileaks video of a lethal incident in Baghdad in July, 2007, reminds me of footage I once saw of Brazilian hunters in a helicopter chasing Indians as they fled across the bush and mowing them down for sport. And it left me with the same sickened feeling—at the cold-blooded merriment of the shooters, their safe and dehumanizing distance from their targets, the exposed helplessness of the Iraqis being shot up in the sunwashed street. Shame, disgust, outrage: these are the normal, the...