Reply #3: Suppression of imagery fundamental to propaganda effort at...

[teryang]

...home.

War is based on age old mythology romanticizing combat and warriors. When the myth is cut away by showing the devastation, death and cruelty of war, the ethical questions concerning the costs and ostensible potential benefits of the effort become an unavoidable priority.

In other words, reason takes precedence over madness, greed, egotism, and other irrational impulses such as unquestioning patriotic conformism. When the unsentimental cost benefit analysis is posed in wholly elective,fruitless and unwanted endeavors like Iraq, the obvious response is to get out!

It didn't take many images during the Vietnam conflict to turn millions against the war.