do it, don't show it

if you read this article (and read the whole thing down to the last paragraph)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/sfgate/detail?blogid=14&entry_id=7056

so if i got this right, it is aparently ok to send an army to die [and for questionable reasons], but then its not okay to show that people actually do die.

weird.....