Rachel Maddow: The Fresh Air Interview
“I don’t think anybody set out to make us so divorced from the wars that we wage,” she says. “But all of these little tweaks — all of these little changes that we made — had the effect of letting a president wage war without political restraint and letting us wage war in a way where we didn’t necessarily notice or know the names of all of those who were deployed in our name. Because a lot of them were working for companies that didn’t have any obligation to report to us when their people were killed. We ended up doing stuff in a way that insulated the American public from what our military was doing to the point where we don’t feel much friction when Americans go downrange.” (NPR)