This Is What It's Like to Witness a Nuclear Explosion

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36. Unfortunately

I think there are plenty of people who are perfectly happy with war elsewhere. Like the people who wanted to bomb Iraq or Afghanistan back to the stone age. The first time America was subject to the type of violence we perpetrate around the world (9/11) the reaction was never "OMG, this is what war is like, this is what a drone strike must feel like." No, the reaction to the horrors of being violently attacked was to do the same but 100s of times worse.

Yes, our military industrial complex owned media cultivates that attitude but a lack of empathy makes their efforts to do that easier.

Americans have been mostly spared the true horrors of war since Pearl Harbor and realistically since the Civil War as US wars since that time have either been limited to individual states or have occurred in other countries. We've never experienced modern warfare on our own soil and, quite frankly, far far too many Americans are either cavalierly disinterested or actively support the violence of war as long as we aren't the ones dying and our infrastructure remains intact.