Blind to Nightmare: Americans Ignore 'Terror US Military Commits'

The United States is responsible for countless atrocities in the endless wars it wages but ordinary Americans do not seem to notice them or care about millions of civilians who died as a result of Washington's military interventions.

Ignorance is bliss, right? According to the official US estimates, approximately 2 million civilians died in the Vietnam War while NGOs put death toll at nearly 4 million. This is not what the average American thinks. The mean response to a recent poll was 100,000, according to an Australian born author CJ Werleman.

"Our refusal to acknowledge the human cost our violence inflicts upon those we seek to dominate, subjugate and occupy blinds us to both the realities of war and the malevolence of US imperialism," he wrote in an article for Canadian independent research and media organization Global Research.

It used to be different half a century ago at the times of the "tenacious" opposition to the Vietnam War, American writer Tom Engelhardt noted. Since then the war has been professionalized and outsourced leading to a dramatic shift in public opinion.
But do not be mistaken: the "spectacle of slaughter" as he calls it has not gone anywhere. Wars are as cruel as ever.

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