On Distant Ground | Social Concerns
Repeatedly, warfare presses far too many human beings into starkly inhumane actions. Much pulp fiction and macho video has been generated to replay the Viet Nam war so that once-betrayed warriors can win some compensatory slice of honor by defeating evil communists or freeing forgotten prisoners of war. Similarly, other popular treatments of the Viet Nam war era pose antiwar activists as obvious heroes struggling to end what they view as an obviously evil conflict. Robert Olen Butler's fiction which deals with the Viet Nam war era carries the reader into the social, political, military,...
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