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In reply to the discussion: Why are DUers buying into this crap about Iran from the corporate media? [View all]gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That person got savaged by a blood-thirsty, flag-waving media, eager for slaughter in Iraq. One of the comments (besides the usual jingoism about being insufficiently supportive of the troops) was how the footage made Iraqis seem like ordinary human beings, who went about their day and their business just like regular people.
As to your original point about why people (regardless of politics) seem blasé about the prospects of another imperial invasion, the short answer is that advertising works, and we are constantly inundated with ads extolling the wonders and virtues of invading Iran and putting things to right. We haven't yet gotten to the point where the Wise Men of Washington begin telling us about all the "lessons learned" in Iraq and Afghanistan, and how this time it's going to be different, oh boy, just you wait and see.
That will be the time to either start getting really nervous, or resign ourselves to the fait about to be accomplied.