"It shouldn't surprise us that the elites despise
the peasant class and look down on the fools who give their
lives to help make others rich.
"Kissinger accurately demonstrates the contempt that the elites,
the people in power have for the pawns beneath them. No doubt
some US presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Bush for example, become
emotionally affected by the deaths their policies have
generated. But largely people in power care very little for the
lives they put at risk in order to effect policy.
"America's modern wars are largely a case of the poorer classes carrying out policies which ironically decimate the impoverished classes in other countries.
"The military (especially the enlisted ranks) is filled with minorities, way beyond the proportions in the general population, and of course hosts of poor white kids from the Rust Belt, Appalachia and the most impoverished areas of the Deep South" — Article here
