WHAT?
Maybe duckrabbit is tired and hungover from too much talking to too many people and wow visually this is a fantastic effort but I’m getting sinister vibes from this ‘spot’ and I’m going to have to get it off my chest.
In recent years we’ve done a great job of bombing the Mary and Joseph out of Iraq and Afghanistan. I find something disturbing about using a warplane to try and send a message of peace to a people who cannot hear it. Think about it, you don’t give out Christmas presents wearing a Freddie Kruger outfit, do you … and yes I know that’s the point but is it one worth making? Actually this is an exercise in ‘give us your money’. Great here’s 2p but …
I was living in Ethiopia when the war on Somalia started, fueled by the American administration which has helped turn that god forsaken country into the worst humanitarian situation on the planet, worse than in Burma (though we’re not playing humanitarian top trumps here). For the most part the American Government used warplanes to bomb the fear into people and helped the Ethiopian army march right into Mogadishu committing rape and pillage as an understatement.
Today is the deadline for them to march out again.
Two years on, nothing but misery gained.
And some.
When they pull out .. what you going to do … bomb them with flowers (and suggest we pay for it)?
(please don’t mistake the American Government for American people, the recent elections shows the difference)
CRISIS IN BURMA from Scott Denton on Vimeo.
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