[lbo-talk] Re: Mr. Churchill

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Carroll:
> At the time the U.S. was destroying the Congo, the most effective bit of
> propaganda was a heart-wrenching photograph of a white man in anguish
> over the body of his German shepherd that had been cruelly shot by one
> of those ______ whatever. It proved that the Congolese and their leader,
> Lumumba, were just a bunch of savages.
> 

Cannot get rid of those US-tinted lenses, can you?  The vilification of the
enemy or flattering friends through appeal to basic human emotions is
universal.  Every nation used it in the time of war.  When I was in
elementary school I remember reading a WWII story of  a Red Army Soldier
pulling a little German girl from a burning building - which was a response
to a the Nazi propaganda showing Red Army soldiers raping a little girl.

"Killing the innocents" is such a trite and hackneyed war propaganda trick
that it does not even warrant mentioning.  Yet you manage to put a
US-centric spin on it by race-baiting it.  Is it really so difficult to see
things in a frame that goes beyond the Podunk horizon?

Wojtek