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I’ve been saying this for years, the reason is the following: The United States has been bombing, sanctioning and destabilizing the Middle East for 40 years and the average American encounters zero consequences. No refugees on their street. No rubble in their city. They don’t see their families getting wiped out. No funerals on their news.
So they stay comfortable.
When you conduct your wars 6,000 miles away, your population never has to reckon with what is being done in their name.
72% of Americans supported the Iraq War. A war that k’lled over 1 million people, built entirely on lies.
They supported it because Iraq was not real to them. It was a map. A news ticker. A “they.”
Lebanon is not real to that boss.
Gaza is not real to most of Congress.
Iran is not real to the people paying for the bombs. When Russia bombed Kyiv:
American TV anchors cried on air.
$175 billion in aid passed Congress in record speed. Most Americans put a Ukrainian flag in their bio.
CBS correspondent said: ‘This isn't a place like Iraq or Afghanistan. This is a relatively civilized, relatively European city.’ Which means brown peoples lives do not really matter to them
The American media has a very specific idea of whose suffering counts as a tragedy and whose suffering counts as a separate skirmish.
That is how empire sustains itself not through force at home rather through distance abroad.
The moment the consequences came home i.e Vietnam, with a draft Americans took to the streets and ended a war.
Remove the draft. Remove the consequences. And you can bomb indefinitely. They have the luxury to be ignorant.
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