I have been thinking about this. 'Black' humour is a well-known desensitizing mechanism for coping with extreme situations and unbearable sights. Firemen use it, for instance, among themselves, and who can blame them?

This site not only offers 'stomach-churning' images of war, but through the captions, it imposes a particular response on the viewer - the desensitized response of the soldier. I suppose that the web and the digital camera combined make it impossible to suppress such images in the good old-fashioned way. So it becomes necessary to re-engineer the public response away from shock, horror and disgust to one of gleeful enthusiasm. This website is helping to do that work.