Overseas, the United States is engaged in real wars in which bombs
are dropped, missiles are launched, and people (generally not Americans)
are killed, wounded, uprooted, and displaced. Yet here at home, there’s nothing real about those wars. Here, it’s phony war all the way. In the last 17 years of “forever war,”
this nation hasn’t for one second been mobilized. Taxes are being cut
instead of raised. Wartime rationing is a faint memory from the World
War II era. No one is being required to sacrifice a thing.
Now,
ask yourself a simple question: What sort of war requires no sacrifice?
What sort of war requires that almost no one in the country waging it
take the slightest notice of it?
United States paratroopers airborne infantrymen in action in the desert
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