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As shown elsewhere, especially from the American side, this is simply not true. Your assertion about fewer people's lives being impacted is also quite false--ju
by angersock 11y ago
As shown elsewhere, especially from the American side, this is simply not true. Your assertion about fewer people's lives being impacted is also quite false--just look at any airport on holiday.
This is no progress at all. Instead, we've gotten to the point where we can maintain any number of flashpoints we like, at any time, with any amount of media coverage desired, and all without ever having to have a useful policy discussion about it with our citizens.
The thing about the large wars of the past? After a while the citizenry lost their taste for it, because it cost them directly. Our current state of affairs is, sadly, not evolving in that direction.
- harryh 11y agoHaving to trudge through slightly more annoying security is vastly different than 400,000 Americans (give or take) that died in combat during WW2. I by no means am saying things are perfect, but if you can't see progress in this chart than you're holding your hands over your eyes: http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Pinker.jpg http://d35brb9zkkbdsd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013... It's Maslow's hierarchy of needs man. We're doing a hell of a lot better on the bottom level of the pyramid. It's gonna take some time to work it's way up to the top.
- angersock 11y agoWe're just going to have to agree to disagree.