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Did seeing the misery of war trigger Americans to against their government during Afghanistan/Iraq? The only losses televised were American soldiers. People ar
by m00x 5y ago
Did seeing the misery of war trigger Americans to against their government during Afghanistan/Iraq?
The only losses televised were American soldiers. People are nationalistic to the bone.
> The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
> About 241,000 people have been killed in the Afghanistan and Pakistan war zone since 2001. More than 71,000 of those killed have been civilians.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/afghan https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/af...
- vkou 5y agoEventually, it pushed approval from a hair above 50% to a hair below 50%, and contributed some to sinking the presidential bid of John 'Hundred Years of War' McCain. [1] Perhaps if an incredibly comprehensive package of sanctions could have been part of the package, it would have changed more minds faster. [1] He's rehabilitated his political image, somewhat, since then, but man, oh man, that was quite the foreign policy plan.
- 7952 5y agoI think it had an effect on public mood in Vietnam, which is why press coverage was restricted in later wars. Who knows how it could have played out in a modern connected world.
- minimal-o 5y agorelevant regarding Iraq: http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/iraqkuwait.html http://www.csun.edu/~vcmth00m/iraqkuwait.html