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Originally Posted by ArchmageXin
True words.
I think the problem is America never really had an real war on its soil (Pearl Harbor don't count). It has never faced civilians being killed at a mass scale (sorry 9/11, it is peanuts compare to Dresiden, Stalingrad, Nanjing, London, Saigon etc) and its people never really faced horror of war at close range.
Even it is own troops gets written off by the media because they are "volunteers", as if their rights get written off as soon as they sign on the dotted line.
America might be less inclined to go to war if their chronic defeats actually have any lasting impacts on its people.
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Maybe not in the modern age, but the American Civil War was extremely bloody and one could argue the beginnings of modern warfare to begin with.