US Embassy in Iraq's Baghdad hit in missiles attack, security sources say (www.reuters.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 05:04
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The US Embassy in Baghdad was the most expensive construction project in American diplomatic history at $750 million. It was built specifically to be a fortress.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 13:36 next collapse

History has demonstrated over and over again that it is wholly possible to piss people off enough that they’ll attack a fortress, even a $750,000,000 one. (But of course, none of the people leading the US Government right now have ever cracked open a history book.)

I hate that the only chance the US has at becoming anti-war is having a war fail so spectacularly that the next generation doesn’t want anything to do with foreign interventions, and then the generation after that always forgets how shitty it was to always be at war.

Jankatarch@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 16:42 collapse

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

There was the problem with underfunded teachers, and some states literally burned books.

Economically, the little that is actually taught was decided by rich peoples’ funding. University tuition costs went up too.

Also modern social media is an extremely sophisticated propoganda. Dystopian, even.

So I am hopeful in the case we become anti-war, we can use that anti-war rhetoric and recent history to become pro-education as well.

Then we will ensure next generation knows war sucks. It will only be a struggle between anti and pro education afterwards.

FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world on 14 Mar 17:10 collapse

To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.

kittykillinit@lemy.lol on 14 Mar 14:54 collapse

Punch an oligarch.