bomb and cry is one of the pillars of wars-that-don’t-exist as produced by western media.
I’m not sure if you’re referencing this or not, but Israel literally has a genre of movie called ‘shoot and cry’ that’s exactly this; unsurprisingly there are Israelis who want this genre to be renamed because of how it comes off to non-Israelis (they don’t use that genre name in a mocking way, they do literally mean soldiers who are sad after killing people):
yes, i’m explicitly referring to the shoot and cry practice that the zionist entity perfected, but i would argue was developed by the united states imperial military during its prosecution of the gulf wars. an important component of constructing this hyperreality is the juxtaposition of images of overwhelming firepower and images of mournful soldiers.
I think it goes back even further to Vietnam. Most Vietnam War media is like this.
Badly burned by whom motherfucker?!He’s probably crying because the burger king truck got mortared
You’d think an experience like this would maybe cause one to question their service in the imperialist war machine and maybe dedicate the rest of their life to resisting it, wouldn’t you?
At most they would do awareness campaigns on the “struggles” of veterans.
my actions have consequences nowwwwwwwHugh Thompson would’ve put a gun to the doctor’s head and and asked if all four of them were going to be okay or not
(Of course despite being happy that Hugh Thompson put a stop to the My Lai massacre, there’s no denying that as a soldier he still would’ve been responsible for murdering people he had zero business doing; putting a stop to My Lai doesn’t absolve him of guilt, but it’s not nothing)
They quit because of this, right?real journalism would make everyone look at the burned kids instead of this garbage
but sadI wonder how that fits in with those doctor’s Hippocratic oaths
Yeah that’s some straight up nazi doctor shit
