The Coward’s Guide To History

It takes about two minutes to mash up national anthems—in the example above, from Venezuela, Turkey, Italy, Myanmar, Australia, China, and France—to show how often they celebrate martial courage. In a couple moments more, I could have drawn on another hundred anthems to the same effect, from Afghanis singing that their “sons are all braves” to Zimbabweans “prais[ing] our heroes’ sacrifice.”

Read Here – Foreign Affairs

Leave a comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.