I mean, one important difference between now and the Iraq war was that Bush & Co. spent over a year drumming up support for that war. They basically aligned the entire media apparatus in favor of the war, gave powerpoints at every international institution, etc etc. There was no attempt to make any justification in the lead up to bombing Iran, no great moral imperative or immanent threat disseminated in every paper/nightly news program/talk show, just a huge military build up with a couple bland, stock lines about nuclear bombs. Not to mention that one of the very first things to occur in said war was the murder of nearly 200 schoolgirls. You really couldn’t pick a more evil target if you tried. The fact that 41% of Americans will reflexively support that is frankly horrifying.
As for the economic side, we already spend nearly a trillion a year on the military, and no one in the mainstream media seems to connect that with the affordability crisis, poverty, whatever, insofar as they actually talk about those things. So I’m cynical that this is going to be the thing that pushes the general public into an anti-war stance.
I mean, one important difference between now and the Iraq war was that Bush & Co. spent over a year drumming up support for that war. They basically aligned the entire media apparatus in favor of the war, gave powerpoints at every international institution, etc etc. There was no attempt to make any justification in the lead up to bombing Iran, no great moral imperative or immanent threat disseminated in every paper/nightly news program/talk show, just a huge military build up with a couple bland, stock lines about nuclear bombs. Not to mention that one of the very first things to occur in said war was the murder of nearly 200 schoolgirls. You really couldn’t pick a more evil target if you tried. The fact that 41% of Americans will reflexively support that is frankly horrifying. As for the economic side, we already spend nearly a trillion a year on the military, and no one in the mainstream media seems to connect that with the affordability crisis, poverty, whatever, insofar as they actually talk about those things. So I’m cynical that this is going to be the thing that pushes the general public into an anti-war stance.