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Quote by: Scribbler1 It was common to demonize the enemy and this included entertainment. Warner Brothers cartoons as well as the Three Stooges did war-themed shorts. It's less pronounced these days due to political correctness but is still there.
I'm sure the studio heads would have jumped on that kind of publicity, but they really didn't have to. Patriotism among entertainers was very high back then and a LOT of them couldn't wait to put on a uniform. People like Jimmy Stewart did pretty well too. |
Problem this time around is we can not demonize the Iraqi people. They were never our declared enemy. We are suppose to be liberating them. Our government has failed miserably to create an enemy. "Terrorist" won't do, because Israel and ourselves have been the terrorizers. "Shock and Awe" was suppose to terrorize people and make them easy to subdue, and that came after 5 years of sanctions that weakened Iraq. I just do not see any honor in what we have done. And it really hurts knowing there was a strong desire to take out Sadam before 9/11 and that he was not working with Bin Ladin, so our invasion of Iraq was not justified on the given grounds and not international supported.
Not to mention no one knows what democracy is anymore and way it has to be defended.
How can people who don't know what democracy is, get enthusiastic about spreading it to another country, a country where people didn't pay taxes and some ways had a lot more freedom than we do? Isn't it confusing to be in war to spread democracy, against an enemy that isn't the people we are suppose to be liberating? How can Disnney make a cartoon about this?