Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting

Gustav Klimt Death and Life painting
Gustav Klimt Danae painting
no one had counted o n. The unquiet dead have many ways of haunting — particularly in the Middle East, which has been accumulating the grievances of the dead for thousands of years.In any case, there is not, or there should not be, such a thing as killing without guilt — especially not mass killings without guilt. When people kill without remorse, we call the insane. We call them maniacs, serial murderers.Americans almost unconsciously regard the victory as a kind of moral cleansing: the right thing. But reality and horror have not been rescinded. All killing is unclean. It has upon it a stain that technology cannot annul or override. Americans are not omnipotent, not all virtuous, they should remind themselves, they do not bestride the world. Vainglory is one of the sillier postures: it invariably precedes the rude awakening. It is the sort of whooping glee that, in Daffy Duck cartoons, goeth before the fall.Did the dead Iraqis need to be killed?