In modern America we have been fighting for security in the Middle East. Although I am not in the war zone I can say that what is going on in the Middle East can certainly be compared to the Vietnam War in the sense of, we are fighting martyrs. In much of the Vietnam War we were fighting in a place that we didn't know much about, and war was fought much differently back then. In the Middle East we fight a war in a place that is much easier to navigate, and once again was fought much more different than the Vietnam War. Both wars have been different except for the loss we feel for people who die for our country and the fact that we must fight against people who do not care if they die for their cause. In the book Tim O'Brien says that "...war is grotesque" (77).
In conclusion I think you can say that all wars are messy, but when it comes down to it, how do you fight someone who doesn't care if they die. I think The Things They Carried can relate to modern day because of that reason, it may also be able to relate to wars we will fight in the future because how it seems to be going now history may repeat itself more than once.
No comments:
Post a Comment