Originally Posted By: Keta
I think the only lesson learned from Vietnam was by the military industrial /oil complex and that is to keep the war out of the media as much as possible, especially pictures.


+1

It really destroys the morale on the home front when parents get to see their own children getting blown to bits and villages full of poor peasants getting bathed in burning phosphorous.

Its better for 'defense spending' when they see clean, white, smiling troops handing out Hershey bars to hungry brown kids waving little American Flags. None of those icky caskets coming off the C-17 a hundred at a time.

That way they don't feel bad for telling their teenage sons that going off to get mutilated & killed in some smelly, assbackward schithole for the personal profit of contractors & lobbyists is their patriotic duty.

Go fight evildoers, Johnny. Your kevlar helmet and your M4 is all you need because Jesus is on your side.