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Reflecting on the War to Promote Democracy - After Viewing "Restrepo"
Kobe 2022-03-23 09:02:59
In addition to implicitly promoting the risky spirit of American soldiers, the documentary "Restrepo" objectively led the audience to think about the war aimed at "promoting democracy". There are two main questions: 1. Is it too costly to force one's own citizens to go to war (with the risk of losing their lives or bringing misfortune to a happy family) in order to establish a Western-style democracy in another country? 2. The soldiers who promote democracy do not fully understand the methods and meaning of democracy, when they deal with the local population in ways unpopular in the Islamic world, when they kill civilians by mistake or possibly indiscriminately, when they use war When extreme conditions are grounds for refusing compensation for civilian losses, the legitimacy of war is severely questioned: Can a war for democratic purposes be carried out by non-democratic means?
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Joshua McDonough: They're gathering intel right now, basically, on how to deal with us because they haven't - - there's no real research or intel on how to treat us right now because they haven't had to deal with people like us since WWII and Vietnam, you know, dealing with guys that are coming back from 15 month deployments with as much fighting, you know, as we went through.