The U.S. military and the media

[Al-khiyal]

[Suki]

Excellent video explaining the dangers of allowing youth to be influenced by these militaristic nationalistic and biased propaganda games.

All these bombing from afar and by remote type of thinking dehumanizes and desensitizes people to the point that they don't associate their actions with the consequences. One of the most moving accounts of war I have ever read was from a USA soldier that wound up stabbing to death a young Iraqi man. He said when he had to kill the young man at close range he never was the same. And went home and gave up all violent action. When you have to see up close and personal and take absolute responsibility for the pain and death and destruction you cause in wars, it CHANGES people completely.

The far away and fantasy war game stuff does the opposite. They never see their victims and therefore never have to cope with a guilty conscience.