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I guess most of us are too simple to be able to deal with more than one issue at once. Or that if we focus on the "flavor of the moment" we somehow completely forget everything else...total tunnelvision.
The corporate media can't do the "wall-to-wall" coverage you're talking about since what is there to cover? Most their reporters are hunkered in the Green Zone and whatever "street" experience they get involve a heavily armed convoy and minders. Most the real attrocities of this invasion, as in many other wars, happen out of sight of the cameras.
Polls show Iraq remains far and away the number one issue of our time. It will remain so as long as our young men and women are stuck in this quagmire...and a majority of the American people ARE thinking about it. But with a regime hellbent on continuing this war for profit and ego, short of taking to the streets with pitchforks and torches, there's little this regime will do to listen.
Any person who dies violently at a young age...be it on a college campus or some deserted alley in Baghdad is a complete tragedy. But to think one dismisses one loss because we're paying attention to another is selling many of us here short. Sadly, while most people pay attention, few really feel direct pain. We can turn it off or avoid a lot of it. Back in Vietnam, if you were over 18 the thought of getting drafted was never far from one's mind. In certain ways, I wish Charlie Rangel's call to re-institute the draft would go through...besides scaring the shit out of every 18-24 year old, it may get some off their duffs.
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