Reply #15: People are never outraged for purely idealogical reasons [View All]

[wuushew]

Drops in support for the Korean war and Vietnam war were correlated to the rate of casualities sustained. Rereading various case studies by RAND it is clear that noticeable drops in support would only occur if causalites were higher by an order of magnitude.

You can see this effect on a microlevel when a large helicopter goes down. For some reason a sudden peak in deaths is worse than then the same amount over a longer period? With something like 70% of public still supporting an illegal occupation of a foreign country it is simply not pragmatic to go against the grain.

http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj00/sum00/hyde.htm