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Not in same ballpark. There’s no Iraq generation the way there’s a Vietnam one.
> Spoiler alert, a bunch of the current ones are going to be seen similarly too.
No they won’t. The lack of a draft and mass domestic casualties dramatically changes the picture. Especially on the saliency axis.
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> No they won’t. The lack of a draft and mass domestic casualties dramatically changes the picture
American centrism strikes again.
Plenty of us of the same generation living in countries that didn't fight in Vietnam (with no such draft or casualties) share such ethical views.
Don't make this an American argument.
> There’s no Iraq generation the way there’s a Vietnam one.
And if autonomous weapons become the norm, _there will never be_.
Imagine a future where people just don't question wars on their ethical basis, since it happens far away and "no one is hurt".
The biggest protest in world history was in response to the invasion of Iraq. It’s reasonable to call it unpopular.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_Iraq_War_prot...
There is an Iraq group but we’re just a much smaller group
Correct that there was no Iraq generation because there was no draft and numbers were way smaller. Vietnam had over half a million troops at the height of that war. Iraq had under 170k.
But the war was still deeply unpopular. There is a reason America did the extraordinary - to that point - and elect its first black president.
The economic toll will be greater with these wars than Vietnam.