| Early images stressed the role of the friendly foreigner, like this
flyer in which a soldier from the "West" -- in a uniform without the insignia
of any particular country -- is shown shaking hands with a traditionally
clad Afghan man.
The light blue of the soldier's camouflage uniform suggests the colors
of a U.N. peace-keeping force and reflects the design of the surrounding
landscape.
The rhetoric of the flyer uses two terms that are central to the idiom
of the American address to Afghanistan: "Nation" and "People." In
this case the appeal is to the "people" of Afghanistan from a collective
of "nations." |
