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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDeja Vu again
I remember when Americans were burned and tortured and dragged through the streets of Fallujah and hung upside down on a bridge. At the time none of us knew they were contractors who we later learned were wantonly killing Iraqis themselves and who we grew to despise. Along with a few other similar "this is war" naked brutality iconic photos it changed everything. The photo was taken after George Bush claimed his Mission Accomplished propaganda. That photograph on the bridge was the responding salvo to Bush's Shock and Awe which continued that war for the next 10 years. Now it's the photos of the ISIS beheading of non-military Americans. I feel like we're re-living the past again. Deja Vu.
http://www.cjr.org/feature/one_day_in_the_war_of_images.php?page=all
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)another huge war crime.
Cleita
(75,480 posts)They were dregs left over from both sides of WWII, many were German, and they hired themselves out to revolutionaries or dictators involved in the various coups and revolutions that plagued South America at the time in the forties and fifties. I don't think the updated version is different. We think of them as Americans but many of them are from other nations particularly from Eastern Europe and the ME.
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)destroyed everyone left.
Wasn't there a magazine called 'Soldier of Fortune' back in the 70's, iirc?
Cleita
(75,480 posts)However in the ad section you could find ads for soldiers for hire. They also ran articles every now and then about little wars like in Africa and Asia that were mostly missing from the MSM. I worked in a book store that sold it and it was very popular with the LAPD.