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cali

(114,904 posts) Thu Aug 8, 2013, 08:17 AM Aug 2013

Are We So Inured To War That When A New Front Opens, We Just Shrug [View all]

and turn away, or ignore that it's happening altogether?

Do we feel so completely helpless to stop something as vague and amorphous as the war on terror that we'd rather not even talk about it?

The War On Terror is flaring up again, but why? What's the deal with AQAP? Are they resurgent? Why? Cui bono?

It seems like the War on Terror is just background noise for the vast majority of Americans, including DUers. Granted there are other real issues and lots of distractions, like penises in wine bottles in Australia. This is alarming stuff. I'm sure there are lots of fat cats quietly celebrating over it; more weapons systems for them to sell. For the rest of us, it's anything but good.

Maybe we should start calling it the Decades War. We're already into the 2nd decade. It's good news for the military-industrial complex.

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Are We So Inured To War That When A New Front Opens, We Just Shrug [View all] cali Aug 2013 OP

war is peace PowerToThePeople Aug 2013 #1

A briliant passage from a novel becomes a cliche and then leaps to life cali Aug 2013 #2

Yes and yes. djean111 Aug 2013 #3

Yes. The WOT replaced the Cold War. The PTB are working on Cold War II.... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #4

yes, that's it. the new Cold War- except it's a hot war cali Aug 2013 #6

Second thought, they may merge... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #7

oh fuck. gee thanks. hadn't thought of that. what a cheerful way to cali Aug 2013 #8

That's probably the single most discouraging thing about being on DU for the last four years or so Fumesucker Aug 2013 #9

Yes it is. this morning someone posted, re Yemen cali Aug 2013 #14

I've been watching the demonizing of China and Russia in the media for some time now... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #13

It's far more fucked up than that. We're aligned with Al Qaeda in Syria, while Russia supports Assad JVS Aug 2013 #15

I know Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #16

William Blum notes we've been at war pretty steady since 1950. Octafish Aug 2013 #5

how can anyone watch the Manning video dtom67 Aug 2013 #10

The one where the helicopter shot a group of armed men out after curfew? Recursion Aug 2013 #12

Curfew, in the middle of the day? Shooting up a van with children in it? RC Aug 2013 #19

I think he means the one that shows all the war crimes. reusrename Aug 2013 #20

it appears that you don't understand, or really know much about this incident at all frylock Aug 2013 #22

Are we talking about "Collateral Murder"? Recursion Aug 2013 #23

yes, the collateral murder video.. frylock Aug 2013 #24

Edit: sorry, it was 9:30 am Recursion Aug 2013 #25

night vision w/shadows????? Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #26

You get shadows from the dawn in the east Recursion Aug 2013 #27

night vision at 09:53 no less.. frylock Aug 2013 #32

the two helicopters left Camp Taji at 9:24am.. frylock Aug 2013 #28

9:30 AM is after curfew...and it's night vision....and.... Junkdrawer Aug 2013 #31

yeah, you get those long shadows in the dawns early light.. frylock Aug 2013 #33

Edited above. I was wrong about the time Recursion Aug 2013 #35

the two kids lit up by the 30mm double-tap.. frylock Aug 2013 #29

No, they were in a van that had stopped to help one Recursion Aug 2013 #36

Hey, we're in the Tenth Millennium of War Amonester Aug 2013 #11

Sorry for my cynical comment....But...We've been "Baited and Switched." KoKo Aug 2013 #17

You're right. They have been institutionalized and that's such bad news cali Aug 2013 #18

+1 leftstreet Aug 2013 #21

It's certainly sad to see the democrats just sit back and let it happen. We've known all along that liberal_at_heart Aug 2013 #30

You don't think Democrats supported war in the past? Drunken Irishman Aug 2013 #34