Most recent public comments by Mr. Andrew Baril https://nowcomment.com/users/17011 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36344?scroll_to=408737 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36344?scroll_to=408737 I agree with what Tucker is saying here that more times than not the US depicts it's self as the good guy and fails to acknowledge the war crimes that we are committing. One of these was like Tucker said the re-location of Japanese Americans to concentration camps essentially the same thing that Hitler was doing to the Jewish community except we weren't systematically killing the Japanese. I also think this notion that we fail more times than not to acknowledge the hardships of immigrating here and always glorify the refugee story as the next great american dream. One line in the essay that exemplified this was on page 300 when it says "Why, though, they countered, were refugees portrayed as so successful? Why hadn't we shown how they struggled? Their sufferings? Their ill fit with American society, perhaps even their dislocation and unbelonging wrought by American racial thinking." This passage just exemplifies this glorification of refugees in America and the notion that America has saved you but at what expense? Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:05:25 -0500 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=406861 https://nowcomment.com/documents/36342?scroll_to=406861 My take on what Nguyen is trying to communicate in his essay is that when you get to the bottom of it war makes us forget what it is to be human and basically brainwashes us to see the other humans we are fighting not as humans but as targets, as enemies. It is because of this that war is the way it is, why it is so brutal, why soldiers don't acknowledge the wrongs they are committing when they are being committed. Because in the end we are all human we are all one why should we kill one of our own? Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:10:44 -0500