"If you've watched the coverage of these events on television, you've no doubt heard the warnings from anchors: "The images we're about to show you are disturbing." And indeed they are, particularly the ones of children—a child being washed down in a dingy hospital while crying out in anguish, rows upon rows of dead children's bodies, and so on. But it's precisely because chemical weapons leave no visible injuries that these images can be shown. If the same number of children had been blown apart by bombs, you'd never see the pictures at all, because the editors would have considered them too gruesome to broadcast. And not having seen the images, we might be just a little less horrified."
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