Pacifism in the Mainstream Media!

[queerbychoice]

Even MSN.com has now come up with an article I really really like.

"A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll illustrates this blind spot. How many Americans favor responding to the terrorist attack by taking military action? 93 percent. And what if this means war? 86 percent. And what if it means civilian casualties abroad? 77 percent. And what if it means large numbers of U.S. troops getting killed? 69 percent. And what if it means large numbers of American civilians getting killed?

That's the question the pollsters didn't ask. They're still thinking about 'war' in the conventional sense of the word."

Comments

[rainbowed.livejournal.com]

i think, (being a canadian, i get to say this as a viewer) that americans, seem to think of war as a thing, that kills OTHER people. how could it ever kill a single american (unless their in one of those horrid horrid OTHER countries? war, is this thing that could never hurt them, it happens else where. "how could it happen to us?"

im being repetative today. college kills my brain.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sums us up pretty fairly I think.

Americans can be really stupid that way.

Re:

[rainbowed.livejournal.com]

bad things onlyh happen to 'forigners' ya know.

[fyreharper.livejournal.com]

I find it frightening that over two-thirds of the people they polled favor a military response even if large numbers of US troops get killed. When their fathers and brothers and sons are drafted, will they still think this? What makes the families of civilians more worthy of protection than the families of soldiers?