Pre-Movie Weirdness
Brian and I went to see The Martian Child and before the movie we saw a sneak preview for a new video called “Citizen/Soldier,” a National Guard Tribute by 3 Doors Down. This video comes across as a recruiting video for the National Guard. A few things struck me, including the fact that so many of the people in the National Guard are currently in Iraq and NOT stepping into natural disasters and bringing aid and comfort to Americans in trouble. There is another little problem with it that I noticed but since Yves Smith over at his Naked Capitalism Blog mentioned it first I’ll just quote him:
Rather than try to hide the big reason not to join the National Guard, namely, that you will go to Iraq, this video instead glamorizes the war and links it (among other things) to the National Guard acting as militia in the Revolutionary War.
Um, that rather misses the fact that the Patriots were trying to keep an occupying army out, and the Iraqis are trying to throw an occupying army out.
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