Selling the War

Interesting book and video reviewed here regarding war propaganda and war opposition. Some choice quotables: The message we are being fed, Solomon points out, is that bombing from a distance with "precision" weapons is moral, whereas strapping on a bomb and committing suicide is immoral. This distortion of morality, to focus only on the effects of one's actions on oneself is part of an American view of war at a time when we have shifted from 10% of war deaths being civilian in World War I to 90% being civilian in the current invasion and occupation of Iraq. ...the public supported World War II, but rapidly turned against the Vietnam War and even more rapidly turned against the occupation of Iraq. The difference is not the death count, but rather the public belief that the war is based on deception. It might be worth checking out.