Week 5 Blog Post
Billy Wang
Feb 3, 2019
In this week's reading, Hamamoto's book" Masters of War: Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence. " is the one interests me. In this chapter of the book, he discussed the killing and murdering happened in American's and world's history. And one section particularly interests me is that, as Hamamoto named, " A few good men." It has been a long lasting tradition for the military members receiving praise and reputation for their service, which started on a good base. However, the problem here is the long-lasting propaganda has subconsciously generalized and decriminalized the military violence. It is understandable that our army did a good job of protecting the US soil. However, is it really right to see the US jet and bombs killing civilians overseas? Ever since the Iraq war, thousands of civilians have been killed and millions of refugees have lost their homes because of US military action. And the troops conducted the war crime still got the praise and be thanked for what they did. I think this kind of encouragement to the military murder has expanded to public opinions regarding violence in daily life. According to Washinton Post, 998 civilian are killed in law enforcement in 2018; in 2008, the number is 29. And this drastic difference has not aroused any major public attention. It is not fearful to have an upward sloping death number; what's fearful is that the public are accepting it.
Reference
Hamamoto, D.Y. (2003). Empire of Death and the Plague of Civic Violence.
Tate, J., JenJkins, E., & Rich, S. (2019, January 25). 2018 police shootings database. The Washington Post. Retrieved February 3, 2019, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/national/police-shootings-2018/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.22ebad298eb6
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