The Beauty of War

I sorted through the newspapers at work today and was startled to find photographs of the attacks between Israel and Lebanon that seemed so unusually beautiful. It's bothersome to me that I found these photographs to be aesthetically pleasing because they really should have "shaken me out of my boots." I think that the beauty I found in these photos diminished the intensity of emotion and feelings of sadness; I lost touch with the reality they were documentation of such suffering and turmoil. Shouldn't the media's job be to communicate the absolutely horrifying images of the war that may make us exude emotion and concern instead of passively flipping through the pages of world events? Check out these photos to see what I mean. What do you think?

blaze started by an explosion

Lebanese civil defense workers

a fuel tank at Beirut international airport