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Re:The Fighter by AndrewKemendo on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @11:05PM (#13275567)
main-stream western society is shielded from the military. There is no common experience. Period. That's the bigger story.

We talk about this a lot and it's an odd topic.

On the one hand it's great that western countries have the luxury of having so few impacts from wars that many don't even know that the US still has 8,400 military personnel in Afghanistan.

On the other hand it makes the population really not give a shit about issues surrounding formal war or it's personal impacts, so they end up just letting politicians slide on stuff.

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Re:The Fighter by JumpCrisscross on Thursday December 29, 2016 @01:19AM (#13275960)
> it makes the population really not give a shit about issues surrounding formal war

Soldiers are between truck drivers and lawyers. More tactile than, and similarly skilled as, most of them. The luxury of the first world is the population's ability to ignore dying soldiers.

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