How do Americans not feel War Fatigue from so many wars? They have WW2, then Korean War, then the Vietnam War and then the Gulf War and the War on Terror. Do the populace not feel tired?
Yes. It is one reason I prefer a military veteran as president. They are less likely to start wars, and more likely to finish them quickly if war becomes inevitable.
the average american is unaffected by war, we dont have to think abt them unless we choose to. knock on wood
most of my life i was busy studying or working job or eating yummy food or finding a pretty boy to breed or exploring city or doing hobbies. not thinking abt anything like war or politics at all
it makes a big difference where the war is fought. War fatigue only happensnif your own country/city/home is destroyed. Americans are very ignorant, untill it happens to themselves.
Because they’ve never experienced war on their shores, for them war is a fun adventure where their rapist mass murdering soldiers are heroes. They don’t know its realities like most other countries do.
The war on terror only cost a couple of thousand deaths. I’m not trying to diminish that, but a couple thousand deaths over a 20 year span of a war is extremely low as far as wars goes.
None of the wars you mentioned happened in the united states proper. Even if they happened in the us, like most of the ones in thr 18th and 19th centuries, it always happened over there away from public eyes.
But there is war on terror fatigue. Young people aren’t joining the military in the numbers they did 25 years ago. Their question is why should I risk dying in a place I don’t know for a country that doesn’t have my back.
Depends on who you talk to. Some people hate the idea of war because they had to watch stuff like Vietnam and the war on terror. We saw the enemy fight dirty while we had our hands tied so all they saw was death and lost. You have some who understand that war if life or death everyday and if you have to “get creative” to live you do so. Then you have some who want war because they either need help or looked at history and saw the most unified and well off we were as a people was when someone fucked around and found out.( WWII and the baby boom after) We are like a massive family. We fight each other but will level anyone else who gets involved.
It may be an age thing. I am 62 and have become increasingly anti war as I age. I think it is awful and want the military cut. I wish we did not have troops overseas. I didn’t think that way before. I
I don’t want to talk politics. I just don’t like killing.
The 2000s we had the Iraq war, Afghanistan war, Somalia, supporting several militias all over, but unless you looked it up you wouldn’t know, I didn’t know. Today that war weariness could start if that information saturates social media since regular media has already been sanitized to barely mention it, except for a two minute update that doesn’t say much.
The US was not fighting any “total war” recently after Vietnam. There was no draft or shifting civilians industrial power to support war effort.
War becomes just another industry sector in the US economy, almost not different from building fireworks and casualties are so low that can be blush off as industrial accidents.
And notice that US haven’t been in a real peer-to-peer fight.
America has barely had anyone die from war since WWII, and not that many then.
About a 400k in WWII (0.39% of the population). About a 655k in the civil war. Around 300k for all their other wars combined. Vietnam was under 60k, and was the highest since WWII.
In WW1, France lost around 1.7 million, or 4.3% of its population. Their combat deaths of 1.3 million in WW1 alone are around how many the USA lost in total for all its wars, including both sides of the civil war, despite the USA having a much bigger population.
Part of why the USA is gun-ho about war is their lack of casualties. They skipped out on most of WW1 and WW2 and have had overwhelming firepower since then in any conflict they’ve been in. It’s never happened on their soil in modern times.
When the US is not in a war, they turn on themselves, just look at the state of the US today.
They no longer have one common issue, they no longer need to show patriotisms for the military, they have nothing in common anymore.
It did not matter if your white, black, Asian, Mexican etc, or Catholic, Muslim, Hindi etc, or straight, gay or whether your a republican, democrat or independent, you were all in the military together fighting for one cause, now no more. No more partriosm to bring you all altogether, the US needs a war to divert it’s attention to the problems in their own land.
Do not conflate the average American with people in power. The average American like most people hates war however we are run by something called the Military Industrial Complex. Something Eisenhower warned us about way back when. You can also read “War Is a Racket” Speech and short book by Smedley D. Butler. The people in leadership have done a fantastic job of turning us in the villains in “Hunger Games”. We are more worried about transgender issues then the erosion of the country and the world as a whole.
Becouse the us military strategy is shock and awe. Afghanistan was taken In a week. Iraq in a month. When the us hit, it hits hard and with overwhelming force. Russia in comparison grinds down the enemy with waves of people.
The American public has a large antiwar contingent. They are politically suppressed by the military industrial complex and its corporatist benefactors.
The Vietnam War was the last war where antiwar sentiment was covered by the media. Conscription made the war very personal for the American public. There were large antiwar protests during the Gulf War, War on Terror, and, particularly, the Iraq War. Without the draft, these wars felt inconsequential for many Americans who might have joined the antiwar movement.
The Gulf War might have been important in solidifying the American public’s confidence in the permanence of the draft ban. There was a mini baby boom in the early 90s in anticipation of a draft.
They conservatives are so weird about it. They are one minute saying Europe is war mongering because of the war in Ukraine, but then go all out sending money to Israel to support the war and genocide. Check their sub out all over the place
The US Military is tired as fuck. Many of us that fought the forever war have retired, or are almost to retirement. The problem is, the military makes up such a small part of the population, and with it being an all volunteer force your average American is completely disassociated from the military. Hell the last half of the war in Afghanistan most Americans weren’t even aware we still had troops fighting and dying over there.
The USA has the 3rd largest population in the world. About 0.06% of our population joins our various military branches each year. We have the world’s most advanced military by far so very few of our military members die or are injured in our many wars. Far more of our population is killed most years in gang shootings in our inner cities or in automobile accidents. When you look at it in those lenses, for most people it just isn’t very significant.
We do. It really weighs on you if you’re a teen looking to go into the military.
We’ve basically been at war for 93% of our country’s existence, with only a few (17?) scattered years of peace and those were mostly during bits of isolationism.
For the rest of us, who aren’t in the military, or considering going in, well, we kinda tune it out.
Another war you say? Oh well, that’s just a typical Tuesday. So anyway, about this movie I saw…
But yes, it weighs on us all. It’s just a constant never-ending weight that is normalized, and has been for our whole lives and those of our ancestors. So it doesn’t get mentioned because it’s basically background noise.
They don’t feel war fatigue because the wars aren’t on their own soil. If American cities got bombed even occasionally the situation would be easily different.
None of these were not fought on American soil, so out of sight out of mind. We just hear about them on the news. Obviously we never want war. The real people you need to ask are the unfortunate people who live in the middle east in or near a war zone. Imagine waking up and not being able to go to work, because it was blown up in the middle of the night.
The populace do feel tired, but not from war fatigue.
There’s a number of other higher priority items in their society adding to the stress level, that war fatigue is likely not even a bleep on the radar for most Americans.
Yes we are very tired of it! But not because we are averse to fighting, but because of the political use of our military and death of our children, parents, and spouses for stupid reasons. We are tired of made up and created wars that are not designed to “protect democracy,” but rather to push a political ideology. We are tired of spending our taxes on policing the world and being the piggy bank to every political and military cause around the world. Yeah, we are dang tired of our political leaders getting us into one conflict after another for other than defensive reasons.
Those lost sons and daughters make up a small fraction of a percentage. Most people in the US probably don’t know anyone who has been killed in combat.
A very low percent of Americans serve in the military, some sources say less than 1 percent. Most Americans don’t even know anyone in the military, so for the most part (in modern war) it’s a thing that happens on the TV at night. Vietnam and WWI were differs but politically and culturally the U.S. has a very short memory. Other than people in the military who study it, almost no one talks about Vietnam or Korea, WWII is popular only because it lends its self to cinema.
I mean, Korea and Vietnam caused shockwaves throughout American society. Vietnam in particular altered the course of the United States development. LBJ, instead of his great society vision got a bloated military budget. The first gulf war was, from an American point of view wildly successful. The second and Afghanistan have varied between “punch a brown person” popular to “take to the.streets” unpopular. The reason perhaps you don’t see the effects in other countries is weaponised poverty. A 19 year old today with no degree and no prospects is sold this dream of free healthcare for life, free education and respect. If they get sploded in the meantime their family gets benefits instead. American attitudes of social Darwinism means if they become an alcoholic and unalive themselves at 40, people think it’s their problem. A soviet conscript in Afghanistan got a badge and maybe a little bit higher the queue for state benefits.
There are a lot of factors at play. For one, these are all very spread out events. Right now I think the general populace is tired of being in the Middle East, but beyond that we’re not sending troops to every conflict so we don’t feel it as much. Then you have to consider we don’t really fight our battles on home soil. We rebuild economically and culturally but we rarely rebuild physically, lowering the effect. Additionally, and I know I’ll get flack for this, we’re a fighting people. Watch our news, learn our history, see what we do for entertainment. Yeah we’re a melting pot but we’re a melting pot of people that got tired of our own respective establishments. Our military is built on voluntary enlistment and we have a presence in a large portion of the world. Sure moral fluctuates but we have an affinity for Justice and the second another country starts acting up we typically don’t stay seated.
American media operates as state propaganda, that’s how. All casualties and critical analysis are suppressed and hidden, a move learned from Vietnam when photos of dead GIs and other war horrors helped turn the public against it.
As a millennial born in 1986, I’ve only really ever known my country to be at war. Gulf War, issues in Somalia and Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan…I dated a navy corpsman who was part of the first wave to Iraq in late 2004/2005 and my brother in law did his time as an interrogator in Afghanistan. It’s all been ubiquitous and never-ending. And now that we’ve seen our country willingly comply with and actively fund Israel’s destruction of Palestinians – including the most vulnerable women and children – fatigue isn’t how I’d describe my attitude to war anymore. It’s beyond that.
My grandfather was an Army Air Corps pilot in the 1940s. He flew B-24s as part of Operation Tidal Wave over oil refineries in Romania and was eventually shot down in the forests of Germany. His entire crew except one other guy died. He was captured and kept as a POW for nine months before being liberated and sent home in 1945. To me, he had an objective to protect the rest of the free world from actual tyranny that affected the globe. Very clear cut. Those days are long gone.
America is a broken country. We constantly imagine ourselves as the victors with righteous attitudes toward what is our “responsibility” within other countries. However, any skirmish past WWII, to my mind, did not need our involvement. Going to other countries to “protect” freedom (when let’s face it, we no longer truly have it here) is a no-win cause and it’s killed thousands upon thousands of our military. Communism was not a direct threat to us during Korea or Vietnam. Saddam Hussein outplayed both Bushes. Reagan arming the Afghans did us zero favors since we interfered with and then deserted their populace so the Taliban could retake the region after our TWO DECADES there.
Our healthcare system is bankrupting us. Our children get shot going to school. Our homeless and incarcerated populations are bursting at the seams. Our populace is skeptical of education. People cannot eat and experience constant food insecurity. Racism now is more prevalent than directly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And we’ve elected a man – twice – who thinks every aspect of our country needs to make a profit so he can avoid going to jail.
Our country is run with the goal of might over right. And I hate it.
Americans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan do feel war fatigue, as do the people close to them.
Because of the voluntary military, wars have little impact on much of the US population. There are no soldiers in my social circle, and that’s true for many Americans.
Most of these conflicts have one thing in common, none of them were actively happening as frontlines in america proper, of course there was 911 but that wasn’t anything reletively close to fighting a real war. They just weren’t as affected as lets say french during ww2. The population just doesn’t suffer as much due to conflicts being fought overseas. It didn’t affect them too much, unless you’re in military
I can only speak for myself, but I am exhausted from wars and a legacy of war. Wars have been fought since the beginning of time in or involving every empire and most countries. That is not unique to Americans.
I’ve had many friends and family members fight in many wars and not walk away undamaged. My heart breaks for them for the emotional and physical damage they’ve sustained in fighting for freedom and often times for how they are treated after doing something those of us who haven’t had to fight should be grateful for them doing because that means we didn’t have to.
I would like to think all human beings are exhausted from war. But I’m confused by the question, it seemed to imply that the American people are choosing to keep having wars? I know that I’ve never been asked whether or not my government should join a war or start a war. My government absolutely exhausts me and more recently embarrasses me. I love my country and I’m ashamed of my government. I’ve had absolutely nothing to do with choosing or not choosing wars, nor has anyone else I’ve ever known personally.
I live in CT and war is good business. From jets to helicopter to submarines and even arms, parts are made all over the state. A real peace would make some people broke.
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Vietnam was 60 years ago
The gulf war happened in a few weeks and was over
The war on terror is a remote conflict that we’re largely removed from, unless you’re in the military yourself. Especially in 2025.
None of these affect the average person here.
Yes. It is one reason I prefer a military veteran as president. They are less likely to start wars, and more likely to finish them quickly if war becomes inevitable.
“We like war! We’re a war-like people! We like war because we’re good at it! You know why we’re good at it? Cause we get a lot of practice.”
These wars were not fought on our soil so we see none of it
the average american is unaffected by war, we dont have to think abt them unless we choose to. knock on wood
most of my life i was busy studying or working job or eating yummy food or finding a pretty boy to breed or exploring city or doing hobbies. not thinking abt anything like war or politics at all
most of the tired ones are dead
Americans fight their wars overseas.
it makes a big difference where the war is fought. War fatigue only happensnif your own country/city/home is destroyed. Americans are very ignorant, untill it happens to themselves.
Because they’ve never experienced war on their shores, for them war is a fun adventure where their rapist mass murdering soldiers are heroes. They don’t know its realities like most other countries do.
The war on terror only cost a couple of thousand deaths. I’m not trying to diminish that, but a couple thousand deaths over a 20 year span of a war is extremely low as far as wars goes.
None of the wars you mentioned happened in the united states proper. Even if they happened in the us, like most of the ones in thr 18th and 19th centuries, it always happened over there away from public eyes.
But there is war on terror fatigue. Young people aren’t joining the military in the numbers they did 25 years ago. Their question is why should I risk dying in a place I don’t know for a country that doesn’t have my back.
Depends on who you talk to. Some people hate the idea of war because they had to watch stuff like Vietnam and the war on terror. We saw the enemy fight dirty while we had our hands tied so all they saw was death and lost. You have some who understand that war if life or death everyday and if you have to “get creative” to live you do so. Then you have some who want war because they either need help or looked at history and saw the most unified and well off we were as a people was when someone fucked around and found out.( WWII and the baby boom after) We are like a massive family. We fight each other but will level anyone else who gets involved.
Because a very small sliver of society does the fighting. A fraction of a fraction of a percent.
It may be an age thing. I am 62 and have become increasingly anti war as I age. I think it is awful and want the military cut. I wish we did not have troops overseas. I didn’t think that way before. I
I don’t want to talk politics. I just don’t like killing.
The 2000s we had the Iraq war, Afghanistan war, Somalia, supporting several militias all over, but unless you looked it up you wouldn’t know, I didn’t know. Today that war weariness could start if that information saturates social media since regular media has already been sanitized to barely mention it, except for a two minute update that doesn’t say much.
Cognitive dissonance, disassociation and copious amounts of propaganda tuck us in nice every night
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
The US was not fighting any “total war” recently after Vietnam. There was no draft or shifting civilians industrial power to support war effort.
War becomes just another industry sector in the US economy, almost not different from building fireworks and casualties are so low that can be blush off as industrial accidents.
And notice that US haven’t been in a real peer-to-peer fight.
America has barely had anyone die from war since WWII, and not that many then.
About a 400k in WWII (0.39% of the population). About a 655k in the civil war. Around 300k for all their other wars combined. Vietnam was under 60k, and was the highest since WWII.
In WW1, France lost around 1.7 million, or 4.3% of its population. Their combat deaths of 1.3 million in WW1 alone are around how many the USA lost in total for all its wars, including both sides of the civil war, despite the USA having a much bigger population.
Part of why the USA is gun-ho about war is their lack of casualties. They skipped out on most of WW1 and WW2 and have had overwhelming firepower since then in any conflict they’ve been in. It’s never happened on their soil in modern times.
military industrial complex. propaganda. no one gives a rats butt about poor people.
When the US is not in a war, they turn on themselves, just look at the state of the US today.
They no longer have one common issue, they no longer need to show patriotisms for the military, they have nothing in common anymore.
It did not matter if your white, black, Asian, Mexican etc, or Catholic, Muslim, Hindi etc, or straight, gay or whether your a republican, democrat or independent, you were all in the military together fighting for one cause, now no more. No more partriosm to bring you all altogether, the US needs a war to divert it’s attention to the problems in their own land.
Do not conflate the average American with people in power. The average American like most people hates war however we are run by something called the Military Industrial Complex. Something Eisenhower warned us about way back when. You can also read “War Is a Racket” Speech and short book by Smedley D. Butler. The people in leadership have done a fantastic job of turning us in the villains in “Hunger Games”. We are more worried about transgender issues then the erosion of the country and the world as a whole.
The US has been at war or in military conflict for about 220 years in their history. They are so used to it that it is normal behavior now.
A lot of us do have war fatigue, the rest of us keep voting for neocons and liberal interventionists in order to “spread democracy.”
Becouse the us military strategy is shock and awe. Afghanistan was taken In a week. Iraq in a month. When the us hit, it hits hard and with overwhelming force. Russia in comparison grinds down the enemy with waves of people.
The American public has a large antiwar contingent. They are politically suppressed by the military industrial complex and its corporatist benefactors.
The Vietnam War was the last war where antiwar sentiment was covered by the media. Conscription made the war very personal for the American public. There were large antiwar protests during the Gulf War, War on Terror, and, particularly, the Iraq War. Without the draft, these wars felt inconsequential for many Americans who might have joined the antiwar movement.
The Gulf War might have been important in solidifying the American public’s confidence in the permanence of the draft ban. There was a mini baby boom in the early 90s in anticipation of a draft.
They conservatives are so weird about it. They are one minute saying Europe is war mongering because of the war in Ukraine, but then go all out sending money to Israel to support the war and genocide. Check their sub out all over the place
Americans dont even know the are at war. Mostly because tech and outsourcing allow it.
Only a few soldiers are deployed.
Back then durong viet and korea they sent poor people and made a huge amount of propaganda to brainwash the younger people
The US Military is tired as fuck. Many of us that fought the forever war have retired, or are almost to retirement. The problem is, the military makes up such a small part of the population, and with it being an all volunteer force your average American is completely disassociated from the military. Hell the last half of the war in Afghanistan most Americans weren’t even aware we still had troops fighting and dying over there.
The USA has the 3rd largest population in the world. About 0.06% of our population joins our various military branches each year. We have the world’s most advanced military by far so very few of our military members die or are injured in our many wars. Far more of our population is killed most years in gang shootings in our inner cities or in automobile accidents. When you look at it in those lenses, for most people it just isn’t very significant.
It’s their economic model
We do. It really weighs on you if you’re a teen looking to go into the military.
We’ve basically been at war for 93% of our country’s existence, with only a few (17?) scattered years of peace and those were mostly during bits of isolationism.
For the rest of us, who aren’t in the military, or considering going in, well, we kinda tune it out.
Another war you say? Oh well, that’s just a typical Tuesday. So anyway, about this movie I saw…
But yes, it weighs on us all. It’s just a constant never-ending weight that is normalized, and has been for our whole lives and those of our ancestors. So it doesn’t get mentioned because it’s basically background noise.
Massive economy, small military targets. Nothing has ever bombed our mainland.
They don’t feel war fatigue because the wars aren’t on their own soil. If American cities got bombed even occasionally the situation would be easily different.
There are those of us who are. The dirty truth is that war makes for a lot of jobs and makes some people very rich.
I’ve never fought in wars, close I came to was street fights.
War abroad. Easy “we do it for peace” propaganda without direct visible consequences
None of these were not fought on American soil, so out of sight out of mind. We just hear about them on the news. Obviously we never want war. The real people you need to ask are the unfortunate people who live in the middle east in or near a war zone. Imagine waking up and not being able to go to work, because it was blown up in the middle of the night.
Desert storm shield and the afganistain war now ukrane. Im so done with war.
War makes money and there is no fatigue when you are printing cash daily
The populace do feel tired, but not from war fatigue.
There’s a number of other higher priority items in their society adding to the stress level, that war fatigue is likely not even a bleep on the radar for most Americans.
American casualties are always so little. Not many Americans died in wars except for Civil War
Most people are tired of the forever wars if they are aware of it. But the US has very deep propaganda and distraction .
Tens of thousands of veterans die each year of suicide or service related injury. Thousands kill partners or friends.
The US is a culture mired in the sense that this is normal and not a result of the wars we are always in.
There are Hundreds of conflicts, many still going on most US folks don’t even know our soldiers are involved in.
Money
Yes we are very tired of it! But not because we are averse to fighting, but because of the political use of our military and death of our children, parents, and spouses for stupid reasons. We are tired of made up and created wars that are not designed to “protect democracy,” but rather to push a political ideology. We are tired of spending our taxes on policing the world and being the piggy bank to every political and military cause around the world. Yeah, we are dang tired of our political leaders getting us into one conflict after another for other than defensive reasons.
We do. We don’t make the decisions to bomb third world people for billionaires to get richer. We’re sick of it here
Those lost sons and daughters make up a small fraction of a percentage. Most people in the US probably don’t know anyone who has been killed in combat.
I mean we’re not the ones that are deciding to go to war. It’s the government.
This has got to be bait?
A very low percent of Americans serve in the military, some sources say less than 1 percent. Most Americans don’t even know anyone in the military, so for the most part (in modern war) it’s a thing that happens on the TV at night. Vietnam and WWI were differs but politically and culturally the U.S. has a very short memory. Other than people in the military who study it, almost no one talks about Vietnam or Korea, WWII is popular only because it lends its self to cinema.
I mean, Korea and Vietnam caused shockwaves throughout American society. Vietnam in particular altered the course of the United States development. LBJ, instead of his great society vision got a bloated military budget. The first gulf war was, from an American point of view wildly successful. The second and Afghanistan have varied between “punch a brown person” popular to “take to the.streets” unpopular. The reason perhaps you don’t see the effects in other countries is weaponised poverty. A 19 year old today with no degree and no prospects is sold this dream of free healthcare for life, free education and respect. If they get sploded in the meantime their family gets benefits instead. American attitudes of social Darwinism means if they become an alcoholic and unalive themselves at 40, people think it’s their problem. A soviet conscript in Afghanistan got a badge and maybe a little bit higher the queue for state benefits.
There are a lot of factors at play. For one, these are all very spread out events. Right now I think the general populace is tired of being in the Middle East, but beyond that we’re not sending troops to every conflict so we don’t feel it as much. Then you have to consider we don’t really fight our battles on home soil. We rebuild economically and culturally but we rarely rebuild physically, lowering the effect. Additionally, and I know I’ll get flack for this, we’re a fighting people. Watch our news, learn our history, see what we do for entertainment. Yeah we’re a melting pot but we’re a melting pot of people that got tired of our own respective establishments. Our military is built on voluntary enlistment and we have a presence in a large portion of the world. Sure moral fluctuates but we have an affinity for Justice and the second another country starts acting up we typically don’t stay seated.
American media operates as state propaganda, that’s how. All casualties and critical analysis are suppressed and hidden, a move learned from Vietnam when photos of dead GIs and other war horrors helped turn the public against it.
Because their war not in America. Their war is in other countries, they just cheering, while the said country pleading war to stop.
Humans are fucking idiots. WW1 followed by WW2 is enough to show you that.
People wank over the idea of heroes and state killers. It’s fucking sick, but just watch the propaganda, especially in the UK and the USA.
They like war !
As a millennial born in 1986, I’ve only really ever known my country to be at war. Gulf War, issues in Somalia and Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan…I dated a navy corpsman who was part of the first wave to Iraq in late 2004/2005 and my brother in law did his time as an interrogator in Afghanistan. It’s all been ubiquitous and never-ending. And now that we’ve seen our country willingly comply with and actively fund Israel’s destruction of Palestinians – including the most vulnerable women and children – fatigue isn’t how I’d describe my attitude to war anymore. It’s beyond that.
My grandfather was an Army Air Corps pilot in the 1940s. He flew B-24s as part of Operation Tidal Wave over oil refineries in Romania and was eventually shot down in the forests of Germany. His entire crew except one other guy died. He was captured and kept as a POW for nine months before being liberated and sent home in 1945. To me, he had an objective to protect the rest of the free world from actual tyranny that affected the globe. Very clear cut. Those days are long gone.
America is a broken country. We constantly imagine ourselves as the victors with righteous attitudes toward what is our “responsibility” within other countries. However, any skirmish past WWII, to my mind, did not need our involvement. Going to other countries to “protect” freedom (when let’s face it, we no longer truly have it here) is a no-win cause and it’s killed thousands upon thousands of our military. Communism was not a direct threat to us during Korea or Vietnam. Saddam Hussein outplayed both Bushes. Reagan arming the Afghans did us zero favors since we interfered with and then deserted their populace so the Taliban could retake the region after our TWO DECADES there.
Our healthcare system is bankrupting us. Our children get shot going to school. Our homeless and incarcerated populations are bursting at the seams. Our populace is skeptical of education. People cannot eat and experience constant food insecurity. Racism now is more prevalent than directly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. And we’ve elected a man – twice – who thinks every aspect of our country needs to make a profit so he can avoid going to jail.
Our country is run with the goal of might over right. And I hate it.
Because the average american jerks off to stuff like this and treats them as things to be proud of.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse
Americans who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan do feel war fatigue, as do the people close to them.
Because of the voluntary military, wars have little impact on much of the US population. There are no soldiers in my social circle, and that’s true for many Americans.
Most of these conflicts have one thing in common, none of them were actively happening as frontlines in america proper, of course there was 911 but that wasn’t anything reletively close to fighting a real war. They just weren’t as affected as lets say french during ww2. The population just doesn’t suffer as much due to conflicts being fought overseas. It didn’t affect them too much, unless you’re in military
I can only speak for myself, but I am exhausted from wars and a legacy of war. Wars have been fought since the beginning of time in or involving every empire and most countries. That is not unique to Americans.
I’ve had many friends and family members fight in many wars and not walk away undamaged. My heart breaks for them for the emotional and physical damage they’ve sustained in fighting for freedom and often times for how they are treated after doing something those of us who haven’t had to fight should be grateful for them doing because that means we didn’t have to.
I would like to think all human beings are exhausted from war. But I’m confused by the question, it seemed to imply that the American people are choosing to keep having wars? I know that I’ve never been asked whether or not my government should join a war or start a war. My government absolutely exhausts me and more recently embarrasses me. I love my country and I’m ashamed of my government. I’ve had absolutely nothing to do with choosing or not choosing wars, nor has anyone else I’ve ever known personally.
You forgot the war on drugs
Grew up in a military family, yes I have war fatigue and war is evil.
I live in CT and war is good business. From jets to helicopter to submarines and even arms, parts are made all over the state. A real peace would make some people broke.
We don’t care about anything anymore.
It’s the boomers way of finding purpose lol
Eh? The wars impact very few Americans,
Sure it was all over the news, but fewer and fewer Americans were involved in each fight
And besides 9/11 there was very little terroism to effect daily lives
Most of Americans fear was in their heads pumped in by Fox News