The shift is to say, if for the,. if for lifting and the rest of them during the Vietnam era, the language was one of atrocity. The language now is one of killing is part of what you do in warfare. So it really is integrated into the business of war. It doesn't mean you are doing something wrong, because this is what you are trained to do. But then you confront enemies who have their own non-moral ways of fighting, so to speak.
Featuring Nadia Abu El-Haj on Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in Post-9/11 America. A truly remarkable book about the unseen ideological foundations of American militarism: American civilians are enjoined to venerate troops, deferring to their traumatized positionality. The first in a two-part interview.
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