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From Iron Man to Captain America

The evolution of American Middle East policy in the first two decades of the 21st century

By Iron manPublished 2 years ago 3 min read
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Oil, like a bloody black sticky phlegm stuck in the throat of the old man of Asia, Europe and Africa. Unable to vomit or swallow. He coughed so violently that even young Americans from oceans away joined in.

Marvel opens with Iron Man in 2008. At that time, it was almost bankrupt, so it had to sell its Copyrights, but also went to the big screen, which was bound by capital, politics and ideology.

Too much room for personal interpretation, a few ramblings about US policy in the Middle East.

A hijacked in the murder in Afghanistan, prince military weapons family part-time genius, good-versus-evil Tony Stark, from the production of their own weapons and civilian yinren, under the influence of see through capital bloody the truth, prince gave up their noble identity, provoked the flag of humanitarian relief, and ShiYao war refugees and save the world on fire and water.

In 2009, Mr Obama sent a "temporary surge" of troops to Afghanistan to protect civilians.

Captain America in 2011: In the face of the Nazi mysterious organization Hydra mastering the sophisticated and indiscriminate slaughter of black technology, Cap Was created to try to solve the evil of human nature magnified by science fiction, military and power with the goodness of human nature. Of course, the most important is the hero aura of individual heroism, and the only female character to appear more than twice the mission of love blessing.

In 2011, September 11. ISIS has steadily grown and continued to grow. America's longstanding Middle East policy is biting back at home.

Apart from these, some of them are identified and strengthened by capital and ideology, the shaping and strengthening of the concept of enemy, interventionism and war brainwashing. From iron Man's initiative to Captain America's passive shield, it also reflects the United States' involvement in the Middle East to the quagmire, from preemptive strike to withdrawal.

Movie ah, fun, like peeling Onions, layer by layer seems to always peel the bottom.

In Iron Man, the audience is not surprised to see the enemy pulling back from a distance, but also half-understood the feeling, oh, it turns out that every step of the United States in the Middle East, is the projection of American domestic interests and political struggle. For a long time, or for money, power, sexual desire, no creativity.

In Captain America, the first layer is that you should be a soldier even if you have asthma, and you should be patriotic and a soldier no matter what. Further down the line, America's senator was forced to sing and dance in a theater and sell National bonds, perhaps not the truest caricature of Marvel's carefully wrapped self, dreams and reality. Brandishing a comically visible shield, invincible, is that praise? Sarcasm?

In Afghanistan, the United States supported taliban rebels as a counterweight to the Soviet-backed communist government. The post-Soviet Union was forced to withdraw and partly disintegrated by the quagmire in Afghanistan. The taliban, which he had nurtured, became a serious problem.

Hey, but can you just blame the US? Has it never been before or since?

Fear is just a drop in the bucket in the history of desire.

With all the irony, I've got this layer of onion.

But there was one line in Captain America that really struck me. Benefits of doubt suppose that a man symbolizes a "man" rather than a literal "man"; One more eye roll, forgive the stereotyped concept of "strong" and "weak" as opposed to its duality. Then summon up a lot of courage and take this sentence to its best case.

The night before his surgery, Captain America asked Dr. Abraham, "Why me?

Dr: Because a strong man, who has known power all his life, will lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength, and knows compassion.

Although empathy is often seized upon as a tool, I still think it is, in its most essential sense, the solution to many problems.

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Frightening or respectable, I want to do both

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