I know, this war is very abnormal culturally. in this case I think it is because the USA openly went looking for violence without even trying to give a real casus belli. Usually they don’t skip that part and the government and media does a thorough job of fabricating a palatable justification that most people can swallow. Freedom or WMDs or whatever, you know if you live in a Western nation, something to give some sort of higher meaning to slaughter and destruction.

they didn’t even bother this time, not really. It’s in someway even more insulting than being lied to and shows the growing weakness of democracy in the world that so many governments now have this attitude of “it doesn’t matter what you think, because its happening and you can’t do anything about it”

and well, if it doesn’t matter what we think, why should we care at all? But all the compliancy cuts both ways. soldiers dying, innocents dying, bombs dropping, it all just fades into the background until it’s right in our faces. The world has become more violent and we’re used to it, it doesn’t bode well.