Infinite MonkeysCaptain Ed points to an interesting commentary at the Naval Institute about the apparent disappearance of battlefield heroes in favor of victims. The Captain writes:
One of my ongoing gripes about the White House approach to the war is the lack of continued and consistent communication about the purpose and the progress of our efforts. But it's not just the White House, or at least the problem doesn't exist in a vacuum. Thirty years of popular-culture indoctrination of the idea that nothing is worth fighting for has eliminated the idea of violence as anything except evil...
It's a bad sign that Jessica Lynch, who certainly suffered, is the household name of this war, "celebrated for being the war's most pre-eminent victim, in a nation that has made victimhood the highest state of being."
Posted by Ben at April 28, 2004 12:29 PM | TrackBack