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UCLA02 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-18-06 12:26 PM
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"Red Dawn" (movie) a tool to argue against the "evil-ness" of insurgency?
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Got the idea for this thread from a reply I posted in the "worst movie" thread. So if you read that already, bear with me, I thought it might be an interesting discussion, and don't know if I've seen it discussed here before.

It is quite dated now as cinema, granted, but it was quite prescient 20 yrs ago as to events today.

I used the uber-patriotic Red Dawn model to argue against the vilifying of the "insurgents" (aka "defenders of their lands") to my fundie father in law. Asked him who in the film the good guys were, who the bad guys were, (setting him up, of course), then proceeded to make the analogy to those "evil insurgents" who are hiding in the hills, so to speak, fighting against us trying to liberate/occupy them. He stammered to make a distinction, but none was forthcoming.

I recommend that line of reasoning toward any my-country-right-or-wrong myopics.

Anybody else have similar (or dissimilar) ideas?
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