Whispering Death
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With the press more free to influence public opinion than any other society in history, can a democratic society actually win a long-term war?
In the recent war in Iraq it was seen that ON DAY 4 of the war the news networks where spouting out "is this a quagmire" because the American armed forces had merely stopped to resupply. With such an outlook, do democratic systems actually have the stomach for war anymore? The politicians are dependent on the voters for their opinions and if the voters are motivited in a certain direction by the media (as shown to be effective in the Madrid train bombings) can a democratic system actually win a high-intensity war like WW2 when mid-intensity wars like 2002 Iraq war have proven so controvertial? What happens when the body count is 300,000 instead of 1,700?
Which begs the even greater question, is autocracy the only governmental system that can provide the #1 reason that human beings create governments, protection from extortion and death by war? Over a long-term timespan can "free" people's live out free lives or do they become so decadent, like gluttonous morbidly obese persons who are so fat that they die or heart attack, that they can't do what is neccessary to maintin their ability to live?
In the recent war in Iraq it was seen that ON DAY 4 of the war the news networks where spouting out "is this a quagmire" because the American armed forces had merely stopped to resupply. With such an outlook, do democratic systems actually have the stomach for war anymore? The politicians are dependent on the voters for their opinions and if the voters are motivited in a certain direction by the media (as shown to be effective in the Madrid train bombings) can a democratic system actually win a high-intensity war like WW2 when mid-intensity wars like 2002 Iraq war have proven so controvertial? What happens when the body count is 300,000 instead of 1,700?
Which begs the even greater question, is autocracy the only governmental system that can provide the #1 reason that human beings create governments, protection from extortion and death by war? Over a long-term timespan can "free" people's live out free lives or do they become so decadent, like gluttonous morbidly obese persons who are so fat that they die or heart attack, that they can't do what is neccessary to maintin their ability to live?