Anyone who thinks that supporting the troops means supporting pointless wars, or that bombing villages somehow "teaches them a lesson" is not a deep thinker. When you encounter people that reflexively support wars against places and people that they know absolutely nothing about, you should be aware that you are dealing with someone who is both ignorant and angry.

Yesterday we discovered that while the vast majority of Americans can't find Iran on a map, they generally support killing Iranians anyway.

Twenty-eight percent of registered voters were able to accurately label Iran on a map of the Middle East region, according to new Morning Consult/Politico polling conducted Jan. 4-5, before the Iranian military fired missiles at two bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops....

Voters were more likely to support (47 percent) the airstrike that killed Soleimani than oppose it (40 percent).

If you figure that about half of the people that can find Iran on a map oppose going to war, that means that roughly 1 in 3 Americans supports causing a war against an unknown place.

Which reminds me of this poll done a few years ago.

In its poll, Public Policy Polling asked the 532 Republicans: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” While 57% of responders said they were not sure, 30% said they supported bombing it. Only 13% opposed it.

Public Policy Polling also polled Democratic primary voters: only 19% of them said they would support bombing Agrabah, while 36% said they would oppose it.

Republicans should be embarrassed by their blood-lust, but note that only about a third of Democrats opposed the bombing of a place that doesn't exist. A large segment of American society is so f'd up that they support killing people simply because they like to see people die.

That brings us to the most illustrative headline of them all from six years ago.

There is a great deal of confusion as to where, exactly, the US is conducting air and drone strikes, though the public does tend to support ongoing campaigns

Most Americans couldn't correctly tell you of the places we were bombing at the time, but they still supported bombing those places. Some often supported bombing allies.

It doesn't really matter who we are killing, just as long as people are being killed.

But we are still the good guys.

If you think that poll was an outlier, think again. There was this poll in 2018.

Fifty-eight percent (58%) of Likely U.S. Voters know that the United States is still at war with Afghanistan nearly 17 years later, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey. But 21% do not think we are still at war with the Middle Eastern nation responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, while just as many (21%) are not sure.

[Note that Afghanistan is neither a "Middle Eastern nation" nor was it "responsible for the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks". Which shows that the pollsters are pretty ignorant as well.]

It's obvious why the politicians and media support endless wars, but it's important to recognize that a big reason why they can get away with this extreme criminality is because a significant percentage of Americans supports extreme criminality.

This vocal minority of Americans can generally be identified by their near complete ignorance of the countries that we victimize.