PMM wrote:
I'm not sure that you'd have that hard a time selling war though. At least if you have the technology to make sure it happens somewhere else.
Well, that's exactly why so many Americans were ready to give a thumbs up to it after 9/11... it's strange to realize but that was THE FIRST foreign attack on the US mainland in the memory of anyone alive.
Americans have a skewed view of war. We haven't had one here since the Civil War. We don't have grandparents who had to dig out from under bombed houses and live on rations for years.
We have our veterans, but the WW2 generation didn't really talk about their experiences, Vietnam vets were screwed by their own country, Gulf war vets came home sick, and anyone else still in the military is doing an endless shift.
But American soil and American minds are largely scar-free and prone to looking at the effects of war thru heroic movie eyes. There is no question that there's a huge debt owed by the architects and supporters of the Iraq invasion, who were naive at best, recklessly indifferent to the horrors they were unleashing at worst.
