Hi, holmes.
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That's right, the word "fuck" is too offensive in an article about us soldiers mocking dead enemies using photos they have made.
This reminds me of
this article written by Naomi Klein that I first read in
The Nation. The article mentions a really, really cool photograph of an American soldier in Iraq. There was evidently some controversy over it (although I never heard of it outside of this article -- but then I don't own a TV and so can't keep up with the news fads). The soldier in the photo was smoking a cigarette, and people complained that it made smoking look cool. As Klein wrote:
Yes, that's right: letter writers from across the nation are united in their outrage - not that the steely-eyed, smoking soldier makes mass killing look cool, but that the laudable act of mass killing makes the grave crime of smoking look cool.
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