American Militarism w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
The Dig
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What Is the Reality of War?
"If one comes to understand war entirely through the soldier or veterans own experience and narrative of it, it is a very particular understanding of war," she says. "The violence as a soldier encounters is not just negative, right? It's also sort of sublime ... The soldier might be traumatized, but he's heroic."
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