Has the rush to war become a national obsession if not mania?

[indepat]

[B2G]

1. Only among our elected officials

tools that they are.

[quinnox]

2. the war mania is sweeping the nation

USA! USA! USA! Let's go bomb the bastards! We will show them what real free-dumb is all about! America, Fuck Yea!

[B2G]

3. Again, it's not the American people

Look at the polls. We have no elected representation anymore.

[quinnox]

6. True, but I would wager by the time the freedom bombs start dropping, Americans will be fully on

board! There is a patriotic fervor that always happens at the beginning of these things. I would say we will see polls of 60% or higher saying they are all for it, if this military action commences. Give it time.

[B2G]

7. I seriously doubt that

People are fed up.

[quinnox]

11. I could be wrong

maybe.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

16. It's known as war weariness.

Our electeds have had the country effed up for too long.

[Taverner]

13. Popular support for us bombing Syria is low

However, the Corporate Servants (c) really want to get their war on

[B2G]

14. It's our elected officials. Dems and and some Repugs.

They own this. Period.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. I really doubt it.

The American people are war weary. Finally I think we have reached the point of resignation. We will pay steep prices to secure our oil supply so that we can continue to pay steep prices at the pump. It is our destiny. At least it is the way the mechanisms of our world have been designed.

If you believe this is about the children, let's talk about the children in Chad. I fail to understand how a Syrian child's life is priced for protection by bombs while another is priced at -- what child? Expendable and unimportant.

[quinnox]

12. I guess you might be right

Maybe I am getting too cynical.

[Warpy]

4. I'm not hearing any of it around here

There is a big air base here and I live close to it, so if there had been any military enthusiasm, I'd certainly have heard it yesterday when I was out and about.

Most people are disgusted and want no part of it.

[Comrade Grumpy]

5. Wolf Blitzer seems to be suffering from repeated on air wargasms.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Chicken Hawk Nation

it's what we do.

[indepat]

15. If we do what the RW chicken-hawks want, it is dead wrong imo on its face

[SomethingFishy]

10. War has become "entertainment"...

I remember watching the "Shock and Awe" campaign and thinking that we had gone off the deep end. It was like watching a sporting event complete with "Play By Play" and Color Commentary"

Seems the news channels just can't wait for the next "big game".

[delrem]

17. The "Shock and Awe" (aka "terrorist bombing") coverage was a moral atrocity.

I've never been more repelled, before or since.

Fox news went all out. It stole al Jazeera's live video feed, cut the sound on it so Fox alone was doing the play by play, and overlayed a 10/20% transparency of the Star Spangled Banner waving in the wind over the image.
No doubt it's still up on youtube - if anyone has the stomach to relive the glory.

I won't be watching the warmongering MSM video feeds of the Syria bombings.