Martin Lukes

ab-global

Analsyt

We need to see more dead bodies - it is precisely because so many people here treated both Gulf Wars as nothing more than a video game and preferred to talk about "bunker busters" and "smart bombs" than "instant death and maiming" that terrorism happens.

We the viewers and you the media were only too happy to avoid any realisation that bombs mean lives are changed forever. That's what bombs are for, theirs and ours. And we do it a lot more, to a lot more people, more often. Let's wake up. If you cover bombings to suit the viewing figures there will be more bombs. This isn't big, clever or news.

Let's stop treating it as if it is.