We romanticize WW2, but remember that it took a LOT of propaganda to get the US into the war. Had Pearl Harbor not been bombed, we likely would have not joined the effort until there was a directed threat.
The results were desirable, but the government dragged the soldiers into those trenches and into the D-Day invasion. We the people weren't rushing headlong into the fire for the sake of Europe or for the sake of assured freedom.
The American people are live and let live and isolationist by a large majority. And 100 years of war since WW2, each declared urgently necessary, hasn't done anything to sweeten intervention in world affairs among the population.
And now, by optics, those that say America First are grinding for war. We aren't trying to overcome the Rebel's Dilemma as brought up by mspm, we are trying to overcome the three generations of inertial frustration with war mongering politicians.
How should I take it? Are you implying that Americans hunger to spill the blood of their kin, but not of the outsider? The opposite?Perhaps that rebellion is not a war, but is somehow different?
American's taste for war is as a last resort. Whether that war is on our soil or on the soil a world away doesn't change much on that view. We haven't even approached the average person's internal cost:benefit calculation as defined by the Rebel's Dilemma - we are still in the phase of opposing the concept of war.
We romanticize WW2, but remember that it took a LOT of propaganda to get the US into the war. Had Pearl Harbor not been bombed, we likely would have not joined the effort until there was a directed threat.
The results were desirable, but the government dragged the soldiers into those trenches and into the D-Day invasion. We the people weren't rushing headlong into the fire for the sake of Europe or for the sake of assured freedom.
The American people are live and let live and isolationist by a large majority. And 100 years of war since WW2, each declared urgently necessary, hasn't done anything to sweeten intervention in world affairs among the population.
And now, by optics, those that say America First are grinding for war. We aren't trying to overcome the Rebel's Dilemma as brought up by mspm, we are trying to overcome the three generations of inertial frustration with war mongering politicians.
Ww2 wasn't a rebellion
This is a "coke isn't water" comment.
How should I take it? Are you implying that Americans hunger to spill the blood of their kin, but not of the outsider? The opposite?Perhaps that rebellion is not a war, but is somehow different?
American's taste for war is as a last resort. Whether that war is on our soil or on the soil a world away doesn't change much on that view. We haven't even approached the average person's internal cost:benefit calculation as defined by the Rebel's Dilemma - we are still in the phase of opposing the concept of war.