| The rhetoric of our aerial address to the people of Afghanistan functions
around some of the same tropes of traditional first-world and third-world
class oppositions that my students took for granted.
Flyers dropped by the U.S. military in Afghanistan emphasize the crudest
possible presentation of capitalist values in their exhortation to "get
wealth and power beyond your dreams."
These flyers assume that the recipients would not understand the value
of "millions of dollars," which could benefit the backward populace of
a "village" or "tribe" with "livestock," "doctors," and "school books." |
