As in, that's all the war in Iraq has become. A stupid PR war.
Think about it. Does it matter if the Marines kill thousands of terrorists between now and whenever this thing ends? Does it matter if zero soldiers die? If the US loses the propaganda war between them and the terrorists, they will have lost the war, military victories aside.
From this viewpoint, is the media traitor to its country, for presenting America as the current loser of the Iraq war? Possibly. On the other hand, if a neutral media failed to exist, then we would have to go back to the old-fashioned, World War II methods of war by attrition. At least this way, thousands of lives are saved; and in that sense, the media is patriotic.
Then again, how crazy has the world become if the largest military conflict on the planet is being fought primarily with reports and interviews? How much of it is real?
In order to help understand this war, I propose the coining of a new term: international domesticization. It refers to any event that is the result of one country projecting it's domestic strife (Donkeys vs. Elephants) onto another, usually resulting in hardship for the latter country.
Does any more really need to be said?
"The real no longer exists." (Jean Baudrillard)
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Good idea! Now add it to Wikipedia and UrbanDictionary.com. :D
It's a bit long. I was hoping for something more unique and catchy, but I wasn't very creative that day. I'm completely open to suggestions, however...
Who cares if it's unique or catchy? Most things in academia are tedious. ;)
Yes, but most things in academia are also not possible to understand on sight reading. You could sort of get what the term means without an explanation, right? Right?
Well, perhaps. Sort of. Enh. :D
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