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I think it's also important to keep in mind that this story is just one manifestation (among many) of the larger sickness of militarism that continues to grip our media and political establishment.
We cannot separate the psychology motivating these media outlets to showcase propaganda "force multipliers" from the overall psychology that got us into the Iraq War and its attendant abuses in the first place.
-- DCLaw1
Yes.
The country has militarized police, churches, clubs, citizens, news outlets, car bumper stickers, and many more. Maintaining an empire will do that to a society. It makes the propaganda job all that much easier if the rube, ah, citizen is already half-way to believing that others should be killed.
