{"id":21926,"date":"2011-01-19T11:48:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21926"},"modified":"2011-01-19T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T15:48:24","slug":"images-of-war-as-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21926","title":{"rendered":"Images of war as propaganda?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just A Grunt sends us links to a Democratic Underground<\/a> “discussion” about a Huffington Post<\/a> article written by Michael Shaw who types while staring at his navel and ruminating about the photos which accompany his article;
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…[I]n the aggregate this is a stunning display of American chauvinism given the intimate framing of the war in such a redundantly heroic narrative, all eyes on our warriors as saviors on high.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just A Grunt reminds us that the three media sources which bring us the pictures in the article are attempts at recreating one of the iconic images that came out of the Vietnam War on the cover of Life magazine;<\/p>\n

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See how chauvinistic? American military personnel are Americans before they’re anything. They are the kid that used to deliver your morning paper and mow your lawn…they weren’t raised on a soldier farm somewhere. They truly care about each other, they fight in your name, too, but mostly they fight for each other. <\/p>\n

They don’t need your asinine pontifications and analysis. Mostly they just need you to shut your fucking mouth for a few minutes while they do the job you don’t have the guts to do. The job you’re quietly glad they do without accepting your own responsibility for the reason they’re there in the first fucking place. <\/p>\n

Those hippies should really<\/strong> be afraid of their stupid rhetoric triggering some violence. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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