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Palmer Luckey discovers Americans tired after Vietnam & Iraq, invents new war readiness scale
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Palmer Luckey discovers Americans tired after Vietnam & Iraq, invents new war readiness scale

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. @PalmerLuckey says Americans are so over war, they probably couldn’t be convinced even to fight the Nazis again: “We burned all of the credibility built up during WWII — we burned most of it in Vietnam, and the rest of it in the Middle East.” “You will not convince Americans to fight another war, even if it is just.” “I don’t think the kids coming out of modern schools are ready to go die — look at the kids on the beaches in Normandy on D-Day. Do you think that we have a few million of those?” Via @mikeroweworks
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