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Gettysburg

Miles Hutchinson invokes Gettysburg, the Civil War battlefield where Union and Confederate forces clashed in 1863, suffering over 50,000 casualties in three days. He wields this staggering toll to deflect genocide accusations over Khundu's 150 deaths, framing mass killings through historical scale during the Situation Room's heated standoff. The reference sharpens bureaucratic defenses against moral outrage, its grim legacy fueling debate over intervention costs.
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S4E14 · Inauguration Part I
Situation Room: Khundu Numbers and Interagency Blowup

Gettysburg is cited by Hutchinson as a historical analogy to minimize labeling mass casualties as genocide, serving rhetorically to reframe moral outrage as normal wartime attrition.

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Invoked historically to deflect moral weight from the present crisis.

Functional Role

Analogical touchstone used by Hutchinson to argue perspective and precedent.

Symbolic Significance

Functions as a moral counterpoint—an attempt to relativize atrocity by scale and history.

Referenced as historical casualty benchmark Used rhetorically rather than descriptively
S4E14 · Inauguration Part I
Exposing the Leak: Leo Confronts Hutchinson Over Khundu Casualties

Gettysburg is invoked by Hutchinson as a historical comparison to downplay the label 'genocide' for mass military losses, reframing moral language through precedent and scale.

Atmosphere

Used rhetorically; no physical atmosphere — it serves as a weighty historical contrast.

Functional Role

Rhetorical foil employed by Hutchinson to relativize casualty numbers and resist moral categorization.

Symbolic Significance

Symbolizes the bureaucratic impulse to normalize high casualty counts by invoking famous military losses.

Mentioned in dialogue as a historical analogy. Carries the resonance of large scale battle casualties to deflect charges of atrocity.

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