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Wednesday
May262010

Quote of the Day

DateWednesday, May 26, 2010 at 3:00PM

Glenn Greenwald elucidates the lack of debate on the Iraq and Afghanistan wars:

[M]any who cheer for our wars enjoy that most intoxicating and distorting reward: cost-free benefits, in the form of vicarious feelings of strength, purpose, nobility and the like, all from a safe distance. It's very difficult to generate attention for political issues that Americans fail to perceive so directly and tangibly affect them -- that's why the failing economy receives so much attention and our various wars (and civil liberties erosions) do not.

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    Source: The absence of debate over war
    by Glenn Greenwald at Salon on May 24, 2010
    One significant cause of America's indifference to the wars we are waging is that those wars have virtually no effect on the overwhelming majority of Americans (at least no recognized effect), while they impose a huge cost on a tiny sliver of the population: those who fight the wars and their families.

Reader Comments (1)

I really liked the quote of the day. It has an important message to the people.

June 14, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterDomain Registration Hyderabad

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