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On the contrary: what politician in their right mind would vote in favor of a senseless, needless war? No matter what district or state you're from, the people
by mabbo 8y ago
On the contrary: what politician in their right mind would vote in favor of a senseless, needless war? No matter what district or state you're from, the people voting would remember that you sent their kids into a war zone. In a generation, most voters would have served and be able to recognize a bullshit war.
Iraq would have been a political impossibility.
- snek 8y agoMaybe? A lot of people at the time believed that the war in iraq was bullshit. There were major protests almost a full year before we actually sent troops in.
- gotocake 8y agoDo we really need a Vietnam for every generation before you learn the damned lesson?! People protested, people ran to Canada, people shot themselves in the foot, and the unlucky ones died in a jungle for literally nothing. If you want to wax rhapsodic about a pure fantasy at odds with thousands of years of history, maybe this isn’t the site for it. At the very least please at act like you’re aware of more than a few decades of history. History is full of conscription, and far from leading to less war it correlates with endless warfare. The term “cannon fodder” isn’t new!