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this seems little more than an aesthetic argument.
what it comes down to is what you would prefer to believe about the actions of soldiers, which is in the main a function of your position on the war itself.
there have been many many reports about trigger happy americans in iraq.
there have been many many john wayne counters--everyone is totally honorable, blah blah blah.
what to believe?
given the nature of infotainment coming out of iraq, particularly in the states, filtered by journliasts in bed with the military, for example, there is little (if anything) that could be called an empirical basis for judgement.
which is of course part of the point of putting journalists in bed with the military.
but judgements occur nonetheless
on what grounds?
aesthetics, a sense of symmetry between the general and the particular, for example.
return to the top of the post.
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