It seems that the American public are unwilling to accept high military casualty levels in foreign wars.
This wasn't always true - in World War II, the American people had no problem with 407,000 American soldiers, airmen, sailors, marines and coast guardsmen dying in combat.
In the Korean War, the American public accepted the deaths of 33,000 US military personnel.
Yet today, the public finds intolerable the deaths of 2,978 American military personnel in Iraq.
Why has the attitude of the US civilian population towards American overseas war deaths changed so drastically?
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_casualties_of_war
2006-12-27
02:07:11
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