> Many other nations are not in such a state of constant war, since their respective military-industrial complexes do not dictate acceptable public discourse in

> Many other nations are not in such a state of constant war, since their respective military-industrial complexes do not dictate acceptable public discourse in the way that ours does. That seems like an oversimplification. I can also say that many countries around the world _are_ involved in multiple ongoing military conflicts just as the US is. You bring up Syria as though the US were the only other country involved... But that's not the point I was making. My response was to the notion that the news and government were somehow masterminding the flow of information in order to prepare the population for specific wars. As though multiple parties were conspiring. Which seems a bit hard to swallow to me.