The US Embassy in Baghdad was the most expensive construction project in American diplomatic history at $750 million. It was built specifically to be a fortress.

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    2 days ago

    To be fair, it wasn’t people “simply forgetting over generations.”

    The other contributing factors you mention are correct, but it’s eminently fair to say people simply forgot. Until 9/11, most Americans had no real connection to anything even resembling war, and the vast majority have no empathy whatsoever for the US genocidal foreign policy.

    Hell, we still have whimsical snacks on grocery shelves called ‘bomb pops’ that are colored in red, white, and blue.