The Normalization of War:
"Thus has the condition that worried C. Wright Mills in 1956 come to pass in our own day. 'For the first time in the nation's history,' Mills wrote, 'men in authority are talking about an ‘emergency' without a foreseeable end.' While in earlier times Americans had viewed history as 'a peaceful continuum interrupted by war,' today planning, preparing, and waging war has become 'the normal state and seemingly permanent condition of the United States.' And 'the only accepted ‘plan' for peace is the loaded pistol.'"
Long, interesting article is worth mulling over. Are we blind to what we have become?