Dios mio, it's Jinxybee!: You know, when I lived in Costa Rica there were bloody corpses posted...

jinxybee:

You know, when I lived in Costa Rica there were bloody corpses posted on the cover of 2 of the country’s most popular newspapers on a daily basis (usually car accidents or stabbings and usually next to a picture of some non-attractive girl wearing a g-string and sticking out her ass.) I kind of…

Exactly right.

The people who actually profit from war would like nothing more than to keep voters insulated and unaware of how horrifically brutal and soul-crushing combat truly is. Here in the US, our wars are fought by a tiny subset of the population, and the vast majority of voters live their day-to-day lives without the slightest bit of sacrifice or discomfort - out of sight, out of mind. I’d be willing to bet you a free lunch that we’d have been out of Afghanistan and Iraq years ago if even a third of the voting public was forced to truly contemplate the reality of their children going off to fight.

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  1. froggeek reblogged this from jinxybee and added:
    Exactly right. The people who actually profit from war would like nothing more than to keep voters insulated and unaware...
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