Just a random headline from this morning's paper. It's such an abomination to talk about a war as "popular" or "unpopular". For fuck's sake. Just or unjust, horrible or as un-evil as possible.... WAR.... not the contest for Homecoming Queen. As if the war itself or the substance of it or reason for it could be summed up into it being popular.
Many people my age or a bit older grew up watching war atrocities on tv. I don't watch tv and don't know what people are seeing. I should at least be checking cnn. What are the images or lack of them, what are the stupidities or cowardices of reporting, that make it even remotely possible that a war could be "popular"?
I know, the point of the headline is to let us all know that we're not as stupid as the government thought we were. It's just so fucked up.
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Alas, the headline was appropriate for the audience. In America, what matters is whether the war is popular. The popularity of the current war is based on many aspects, including just or unjust, clean or messy, but also on herd mentality, weariness with the body count, today's taxes and cost of gasoline, today's disappointment with body weight, size of penis, etc. The winds blow, we go to war, and then we lose the mood and reel it back in.
I read and listen to a lot of news, but when it comes to the war in Iraq I can't even listen anymore, so I don't know what imagery they're showing. I turn away, honest to god, I turn away, because I'm too heart-sick to face it.
Posted by: RJ Mical | March 31, 2007 at 02:06 PM