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Saw an exchange between Whoozyerdaddy and Zebo in the Pakistan thread, where Zebo said we're due for another war, to which Whoozyerdaddy replied that Americans have too short an attention span for a protracted war to be feasible.
What was different about WWII?
Was it the fact that so much was at stake, or that it was deadly serious? That seems dubious to me. We'd already been through WWI, which was a mess. On the other hand, since WWII we haven't been in a conflict in which we might ultimately have been fighting for our very lives. I suppose if Hitler had conquered all of Europe, he would've eventually come for us. I read that the Nazi's were researching transatlantic bombers.
Was there less information available, such as daily troop casualties, to cause daily reductions in citizen support? Without the internet and prevalent media access, I'd imagine it'd be very difficult to organize large protests against a war.
It's a sad fact that prosperity breeds complacency, and that only tragedy will shake us from it.
Whatta you guys think.
What was different about WWII?
Was it the fact that so much was at stake, or that it was deadly serious? That seems dubious to me. We'd already been through WWI, which was a mess. On the other hand, since WWII we haven't been in a conflict in which we might ultimately have been fighting for our very lives. I suppose if Hitler had conquered all of Europe, he would've eventually come for us. I read that the Nazi's were researching transatlantic bombers.
Was there less information available, such as daily troop casualties, to cause daily reductions in citizen support? Without the internet and prevalent media access, I'd imagine it'd be very difficult to organize large protests against a war.
It's a sad fact that prosperity breeds complacency, and that only tragedy will shake us from it.
Whatta you guys think.