Do oyu think the economy will cause people to forget about the two wars we're fighting?

[Stinky The Clown]

Do you think the usual "this trumps that" bullshit about what we are told to worry about will hold true? Yeah, the economy sucks. But will that bloated (incredibly bloated - like 59% of ALL our spending) "defense" budget be ignored in favor of cheering for spending that may save a job or two? Or even millions of jobs?

Jobs?

Or War?

Or Both?

And what about the wars all by themselves? As their own issues. Do you think people will forget about them? Ignore them?

Will they miss that we're escalating in one as we might be just doing a smidgen of draw down in the other war?

Do you think this new Afghanistan escalation will be ignored?

Or are we, in this respect, headed back to 1968? And Lyndon Johnson? Followed by Richard Nixon? Followed by our 40 years out in the desert?

[2Design]

1. republicans have already forgotten they got us into this mess n/t

[seabeyond]

2. what wars?

i think we as a nation forgot about them a while ago.

[Mojorabbit]

11. I agree

you see almost no footage on tv from either Iraq or Afghanistan. I think a whole boatload of people are concentrated in the here and now about their financial situation. Whether they will have a job or not next week, is there enough in the checking acct to cover the bills this month, etc. The war is abstract next to that. Maslov's hierarchy bottom level times.

[Donnachaidh]

3. If it gets desperate enough, the only employment option will BE the wars

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED for the Military Industrial Complex.

When that happens people should be in the streets, looking to tear down every mansion the find. :sarcasm:

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I think most people are capable of keeping more than one thing in mind at once--

especially when there is such a stout cord of logic connecting them. The economy's in the shitter. Most people don't have any problem then asking what the hell we're doing pounding billions down the ratholes of Iraq and Afghanistan. The infamous M$M will no doubt try to dissociate the two but I don't thin it will work.

[lib2DaBone]

5. The Republicans via Rush Limbaugh will work overtime to pin the recession on Obama....

..they will be successful ...because the DEMS don't know how to fight back.

Until we get control of our media by undoing Ronnie Reagan's multiple ownership deals.. not a word of truth will be heard by the American people.

[Mike 03]

6. I'm afraid so. I asked this exact same question about five or six months ago and

almost immediately people answered saying, things like, "Are you kidding? People who have mouths to feed are not thinking at all about the wars."

I do think about the wars, but I admit, I'm spending more and more time thinking about my grocery bills and credit card bills.

Depressing but true. It wasn't that long ago that the Iraq war was the only thing I was thinking about. It was like an obsession. But not today.

[geckosfeet]

7. The wars helped ruin the economy ala USSR vs Afghanistan.

I think that this was calculated by the RW, Cheney and his ilk as retribution for Nixon and the very unpopular Viet Nam war.

[blues90]

8. I think most people will focus on the economy now

and for good reason just as they were focused on the war on terror after 9/11 for the sake of fear alone and it's all ramped up by the media. It's just a matter of a different kind of fear so the wars will be set way in the background as they are right now and have been when the campaigns began.

[Captain Hilts]

9. No. We have an economic draft. nt

[many a good man]

10. Wars? What wars?

We ought to declare War On Wall Street (WOWS!).

Bringing the troops home now will increase unemployment and lead to riots in the streets. Or not. Military has always been an outlet for unemployment, ever since the closing of the frontier at least. Out of sight out of mind.

Afghanistan has been known as "the place empires go to die" since ancient times. America's plucky refusal to acknowledge reality will surely lead us...where? All we have left is our pluck.

[nevergiveup]

12. As a small businessman

I am hanging onto a sinking ship. I hate both wars but I have families depending on me and I must focus/concentrate on the survival of my business. If we can get the ship righted then I will get out my peace sign and go back to the streets. For the moment I just don't have time.

[spanone]

13. this is why we should see the bodies coming home from war.....there ARE consequences