MS NOW All In host Chris Hayes made a morally obscene analogy on his Monday show as he lamented that the United States allegedly does not appreciate the fact that the people who die in war are real human beings. To prove his point, Hayes tried to claim that the terror Americans felt after 9/11 is “commonplace” in other parts of the world because of “the kinds of war of aggression that Donald Trump just started.”
Hayes started with what may have seemed to be a friendly reminder that this war is taking place in the real world with real people being caught in the middle, “But outside these borders, war is having a bomb dropped on your daughter’s elementary school, seeing some alert or getting a panicked call, or on your apartment building, or the hospital where you are receiving care. Death from above. And when you only view war through our perspective, the understanding that bombs are never coming for us, it becomes nothing more than an abstraction. Gets far too easy to wave away the loss of human life. It’s priced in. It’s the cost of doing business.”
Chris Hayes compares bombing Iran to 9/11, “there was one instance in my lifetime when we in America experienced death from above. September 11th, 2001… For us, that kind of violence is an anomaly. It is a once in a lifetime tragedy. For other people, in other countries, the… pic.twitter.com/Vhmm59sUY4
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) March 3, 2026