It’s Judgment That Defeats Us
As I was researching for the post on Apocalypse Now, I stumbled upon a person’s blog who had quite a few
good pieces of insight into Colonel Kurtz and his philosophy. The writer, Steven Lloyd, lays out the
question of Apocalypse Now as being
“Given the horror, what do we do?” There
must be a reaction to the present war.
If war are the cards dealt to us, what are we to do? However, later in his blog entry he writes
that Kurtz has the correct vantage point.
He writes that war is illogical to a civilized people because war is a
time without rules. But as I started to
think about this blog, I realized that war is not actually a time without
rules. Wartime is actually a structured
and carefully calculated adventure. Both
teams seemingly play by the rules, one of these being “Fair fighting.” But what I propose sets this war apart is
that Vietcong forces do not play by the rules.
This is why Kurtz must be eliminated.
Kurtz’s tactic is one which will be met with death and destruction if
abided by.
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