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Originally Posted by PeteEU  Well if a NATION attacked the US and there was a real war, then I suspect that the media would put in place a huge self censorship system, and if not, the US government would attempt to control the flow of information as it did in WW2 even at the cost of civil liberties.. its was done once and will be done again.
Now the issue here would be if the partisan bloggers on both sides would "behave", and what impact the Internet would have. One way would be to cut the internet off, something the US can do if it wants.
The problem with wars like the Iraq war (or Vietnam) is that no one really understood why it was needed, and the explanations of why, have been slowly pulled apart as falsehoods. Now during WW2, there was no doubt.. Japan attacked the US. Germany attacked France, Poland and so on. It was pretty much black and white. The Iraq war was very much grey, and that makes it much harder to not only accept, but to justify especially when it goes bad.
When push comes to crunch, most nations like most tribes, will band together to fight off an enemy. |
I believe that we already have a huge censorship in place right now and that we don't have all the facts that contribute to our governments decision making process. Were not in the Pentagon, or Langley, or the White House. We can't possibly know all the facts that lead to the decisions being made, and I would argue that if we did have all the facts we may understand why our government does what is does.
If losing 400,000 soldiers in WW2 is acceptable and 50-70 million total is acceptable then a fraction of that is acceptable in Iraq in my opinion.