Discuss US Soldier Kills Afghan Civillians in Current Affairs, News and Analysis on The Army Rumour Service; Originally Posted by alib
Well it's not about the Afghan's is it, it's about waining domestic US support for continuing the war and the ghost of My Lai, the dreadful idea that US soldiers sometimes ...
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About LinkBacks- 23-03-2012, 18:15 #351While I agree with your conclusion that support for the "long war" is waning in the US, I do not think the most recent incident has much to do with that. From my perspective as an amateur social observer, Americans are in the main quite oblivious to the fact we are even fighting a "war" and were it not an election year, even less would be said of it. We are too concerned about who is on "Dancing with the Stars" and other momentous things. In post-modern America, the average attention span is measured in nano-seconds especially if it is anything unpleasant.
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"A democracy cannot survive as a permanent form of government. It can last only until its citizens discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority (who vote) will vote for those candidates promising the greatest benefits from the public purse, with the result that a democracy will always collapse from loose fiscal policies, always followed by a dictatorship." Lord Thomas MacCauley 1857
- 19-12-2012, 18:25 #352Senior Member
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