D'Souza would say that making a few sacrifices on the way to spreading American values is without a shadow of a doubt worth it. However, he says that the reason they lost in Vietnam was because Americans as whole did not see a reason to fight. I think it's interesting how he fails to acknowledge this fact in regards to the war in Iraq. A majority of people are not in favor of the war right now. Also, he talks about how Islamic fundamentalist nations are so behind in technology. Well, the excuse for going over seas was a supposed threat of nuclear weapons, and their "inferior" fighting force has been holding Americans off for years. I have a lot of problems with this guy.
Anyway, not relevant to the blog topic.
D'Souza speaks only in terms of the masses, while Johnny Got His Gun is the story of a single individual. One of my issues with him is the fact that he seems to believe in the logic of the Spanish Inquisition, which is also what the Islamic fundamentalists think. It's worth the fate of the world to sacrifice a few individuals. He believes in what he hates. Johnny Got His Gun is anti-war by talking about how war destroyed a person for the sake of something he barely knew about and certainly didn't understand. The book has a view that war is bad because it damages the lives of innocent boys. D'Souza thinks that war is good because even if a few guys get crushed, it's for the greater good, and they should be proud to have made the sacrifice. I think that if it were he who woke up an armless, legless, faceless torso his opinion would change.
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