Video Post
by Lizbeth ~ November 12th, 2010. Filed under: Uncategorized.So i was going through YouTube videos and came across this one. I feel this is so appropriate for our class. It gives a perspective of soldiers in foreign lands from someone that is defenseless just watching it all happen. How they just walk around foreign lands “as if they owned it”, “hungry for human flesh”. I already watched it a few times and decided to share it. After reading S. I think this goes along with the whole view of aggressive soldiers that take what they are told and want .
Its a powerful poem….hope others like it!!
November 15th, 2010 at 9:00 pm
I think this video really covers two of the aspects that we’ve covered in class. We very obviously are given the viewpoints of the frustrated civilian, and she also gives us a little bit about the soldier, who seems very much like the main character from Jarhead in her description. She says: “You cannot stop taking orders,” further illustrating how the soldier’s actions become almost mechanical, dictated by his higher-ranked officers. As a civilian tormented by the idea of the arrival of war in her nation, and the terrorism thrust upon her people, who are the alleged terrorists, she gives a very raw display of her feelings. The line, “You mistook children for terrorists so you put them at gunpoint,” shows that warfare becomes very stereotypical, and soldiers become quick to accuse civilians of war crimes they have not committed and likely won’t commit.