My only question is - the world-wide protests against Iraq war was unprecedented in its scope across the globe. And what happened? NOTHING! The USA went to Iraq and we all just went back to TV screens.....
This was previously noted: The end of the draft crippled the peace movement, because Americans who didn’t want to kill or be killed were not legally forced to go. Domestic unrest scares the corporations that depend on optimistic American shoppers. This and the elimination of American flagged-draped caskets from public view. The bubble of “American exceptionalism” was, for a time, inviolable. The growth of viable independent media and the resolve of all of the empire’s declared “enemies of state,”has greatly compromised that bubble. Thankfully.
It was a TV milestone to be able to watch live on CNN, the US Shock & Awe bombing of Baghdad in it's WAR on Iraq violating the same International LAW Russia is demonized for violating.
My only question is - the world-wide protests against Iraq war was unprecedented in its scope across the globe. And what happened? NOTHING! The USA went to Iraq and we all just went back to TV screens.....
This was previously noted: The end of the draft crippled the peace movement, because Americans who didn’t want to kill or be killed were not legally forced to go. Domestic unrest scares the corporations that depend on optimistic American shoppers. This and the elimination of American flagged-draped caskets from public view. The bubble of “American exceptionalism” was, for a time, inviolable. The growth of viable independent media and the resolve of all of the empire’s declared “enemies of state,”has greatly compromised that bubble. Thankfully.
It was a TV milestone to be able to watch live on CNN, the US Shock & Awe bombing of Baghdad in it's WAR on Iraq violating the same International LAW Russia is demonized for violating.