War has become a vanity project for too many politicians - and for some a way of filling their personal coffers (thinking explicitly of Cheney and T Blair).
Civilians and surviving veterans all come under the dismissive term "collateral damage" to be shoved under the carpet and ignored. Powerless poor people have no social value to them, unlike political donors.
A more appropriate comparison would be if the wing-nuts doing this had instead picked synagogues. The coverage would be wall-to-wall. There's an accepted minority, enfoldedInto the elite, and a rejected minority, any presence rejected by much of the elite.
War has become a vanity project for too many politicians - and for some a way of filling their personal coffers (thinking explicitly of Cheney and T Blair).
Civilians and surviving veterans all come under the dismissive term "collateral damage" to be shoved under the carpet and ignored. Powerless poor people have no social value to them, unlike political donors.
A more appropriate comparison would be if the wing-nuts doing this had instead picked synagogues. The coverage would be wall-to-wall. There's an accepted minority, enfoldedInto the elite, and a rejected minority, any presence rejected by much of the elite.