I stand by my statement ... and look at the article. Vietnam. Everything else you mentioned was pre-television era. The TV images made America turn against Vietnam.
I stand by my statement ... and look at the article. Vietnam. Everything else you mentioned was pre-television era.
Pearl Harbor was also pre-television.
However, on 11 September, 2001 most of America and I were able to watch, as a result of television, almost 6,000 other Americans die on live TV. One moment we were speculating on what caused that little puff of smoke that blew out of the building and the next moment were are watching the WTC Towers collapse on live TV. Three thousand dead Americans, just like that, in seconds. Fifteen minutes later, another 3,000 dead Americans, just like that, in seconds.
If the forces behind these attacks are not totally destroyed, the future dead will not be "the South Vietnamese", "the Cambodians", "the Koreans", "the European Jews", "the French" or "the British" as they were in Vietnam, Korea and the European Theatre of WW II. The future dead, in the minds of most Americans, will be "maybe my wife or my son or my daughter or my parents or my aunts and uncles or my cousins or my friends or my neighbors."
I stand by my statement. Pushed far enough, America will kill as many as need to be killed to stop the attacks on America and the American viewing public will be watching the details on TV and giving each other "high fives".