(Airman First Class Courtney Witt)
Yawning Our Way Into Wars Of Choice -- William J. Astore, CBS
America's wars are remote. They're remote from us geographically, remote from us emotionally (unless you're serving in the military or have a close relative or friend who serves), and remote from our major media outlets, which have given us no compelling narrative about them, except that they're being fought by "America's heroes" against foreign terrorists and evil-doers. They're even being fought, in significant part, by remote control -- by robotic drones "piloted" by ground-based operators from a secret network of bases located hundreds, if not thousands, of miles from the danger of the battlefield.
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My Comment: Sadly .... this is true. With the exception of those who are directly fighting in our wars and the families who are impacted by these deployments .... the general public is tuned out. Unless we have the draft .... this mindset will continue.