Iraq, My Heart Belongs to You!
From Social Design Notes comes the story of photographer Zoriah Miller, whose publishing of photos depicting American and Iraqi casualties has inspired the commander of the U.S. Marines in Iraq to call for Zoriah’s banishment from U.S. military bases worldwide.
John Emerson, who runs Social Design Notes, was reading about Zoriah’s story in the New York Times, and turned to the photographer’s portfolio online, where he found the picture below.
He published his reaction online a few days ago:
It has a Banksy-like irony to it: juxtaposing tools of authoritarian force with the values they are rhetorically professed to deliver — and with a faint whiff of commercialism. The vehicle above is a Iraqi Soviet-model MT-LB multi-purpose armored personnel carrier, most likely tagged, I suspect, by a U.S. soldier. But paint that slogan on an U.S. Abrams, and it makes a good stencil idea.
He’s made the stencil available for download from his website. Nice work, John!
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