War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war
Independent Institute
by Robert Higgs
11/26/06
War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war. In this prolonged stage, most people have grown tired of the war. They have surrendered their prior illusions about the glorious outcomes it was supposed to bring. They have come to understand that for them it is worse than pointless, that its costs have been real and its benefits a chimera, and that it seems likely to damage them further as it continues. Yet the war goes on and on, with no end in sight. We are now well into this stage of the war in Iraq...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Robert Higgs
11/26/06
War weariness is the prevailing public sentiment in the third stage of a major U.S. neo-imperialist war. In this prolonged stage, most people have grown tired of the war. They have surrendered their prior illusions about the glorious outcomes it was supposed to bring. They have come to understand that for them it is worse than pointless, that its costs have been real and its benefits a chimera, and that it seems likely to damage them further as it continues. Yet the war goes on and on, with no end in sight. We are now well into this stage of the war in Iraq...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1856
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 27. Nov, 15:34
