Flag Day
TIME Magazine Cover: The American Flag - July 6, 1942
Be sure to click on the TIME link and look at their magazine covers from the summer of 1942: Rommel, Shostakovich, Marshal Timoshenko, Halder. The iconography of all of the bespeaks a less ambiguous time, or certainly a less ambiguous TIME.
Compare TIME’s current representation of Zarqawi to their image of Halder on June 29, 1942:
(You must click on Halder’s cover to get the full effect.) Halder looks like a monocled Sauron, grimly presiding over the graves of German soldiers, a ruthless, hateful man, it says. His harshly lined, metallic face represents his mechanical inhumanity. But, awwwww, look at Zarqawi’s youthful image, the innocuous face of a madrassah student perhaps, rudely scratched off by the blood-red marks of Bush’s Haditha hoplites.
(Update: Read Allah’s comment and linked post. TIME’s image of Zarqawi has a very appropriate lineage. I blew it on this one.)
As for the flag pictured on the July 2 cover, proudly waving over amber fields of grain, purple mountains’ majesty, and (of all things!) a church, we’ll never see that sort of thing again, not even if Alaska and Hawaii seceded.
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