by J. Robert Smith, American Thinker:

Mention the Ukraine War to most Americans and their eyes glaze over.  A lot of folks can’t locate Ukraine on a map.  Yes, that’s partly the fault of our educational system.

Historically, though, if it ain’t happening here at home, it ain’t happening — until the Lusitania sinks or Pearl Harbor is bombed.  Vietnam was peripheral until LBJ and the “military-industrial complex” took advantage of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.  Only then did Americans grab their Rand McNallys to discover where Vietnam was.  Then there was Iraq, Saddam, and “weapons of mass destruction.”  But that was a short war and casualties were fewer.  People barely had time to unfold maps.