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The video of US marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters has shocked many. But the dehumanizing of the enemy was much worse back in the day.
According to a survey conducted by Pew, 1 in 3 US veterans of the wars since 9/11 think that Iraq and Afghanistan have not been worth it.
- Breaking it down by individual war, half of the polled veterans considered the war in Afghanistan to have been necessary and 44% said the same of the Iraq war.
- Six in ten of these veterans thought that we should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on domestic issues.
- Only 21% of them thought that the civilian public understood the issues faced by servicemembers.
- 87% came down on the side of increased use of drones in warfare.
- 82% were against re-institution of the draft.
Above is a chart detailing what servicemembers reported as being the rewards and the burdens of their military experiences and a word cloud of the words and phrases they chose to describe those same experiences.
Photo Credits: Erik DeCastro/Reuters; Brennan Linsey/AP
