Visual Proofs against War?

A recent NYT blog on Photography and War.
And my contribution:
Thank you for getting us to reflect on this most relevant topic.

All governments do not want this type of information to circulate freely as it would make it impossible to recruit anyone…

Whether we can be convinced that war is bad through the visual “proofs” remains to be seen. I like to bring up how the terribly graphic work of the German pacifist, Ernst Friedrich, whose book, War Against War, written in four European languages, in the 1920’s and republished recently, did no prevent WWII.

Stephen Crane warned us:
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
“It is futile,” I said,
“You can never -”

“You lie,” he cried,
And ran on.

FYI, on October 21-23, I might present Am I disturbed or what? An undigested, and non-digestible world, and to remain so – All true language is incomprehensible. Antonin Artaud – in the context of a School of the Visual Arts conference on *Visions of War/The Arts Represent Conflict*:
http://www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ug/index.jsp?sid0=1&sid1=46&page_id=497
Scheduling issues are not set for me.