Whats happened to us in that we dont seem to care much about the iraq war?

Question

i mean, look at what happened when we went to war in vietnam - protests, you name it...but noone even pays attention to this war....people are dying every ******* day, yet most people just go on with their day to day lives as if its not really happening

Answer 1

That there are no protest does not necessarily mean that people do not care.  Many people care.  They mourn the loss of life, but they hope and believe that this war can have a positive outcome.  Do some research on the Vietnam War--or rather the aftermath.  Do you know that many thousand of people risked their lives to escape domination by the North Vietnamese?  Did you know that many were killed by the North Vietnamese government because they had supported and counted on us to help them remain free?  An idea you might think about is this: war is terrible, but sometimes what results from not being willing to go to war is worse.  Remember Hitler?  Was going to war with him wrong?  Perhaps, not?  Did you know that during the time that Hitler and Stalin had a mutual non-aggression treaty the movies Hollywood made either made no comment on the concept of war, or they were anti-war.  When the Soviet Union went to war with Germany, suddenly the movies supported the war.  This all goes back to the naive notion many people had in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s that communism was going to solve all our problems.  So people blindly supported Stalin, even as the Gulag filled up.  History is complicated, and it is not safe to claim beliefs you have not examined.

Answer 2

If the US Government brought back the Draft - more people would care.

Answer 3

I care.  It's made me dislike President Bush and I don't ever remember truly disliking a President.  I protest on this computer by sending letters by e-mail to every Representative and Senator that I can.  You see, I can't go out and protest.  I'm too busy caring for my son who came back from Iraq brain damaged and paralyzed.

Answer 4

People do care, and there have been protests.

Answer 5

Sadly, we don't have a very long attention span. It's a shame.

Answer 6

More people died in the first 20 minutes of the Vietnam War then in both the Iraqi and Afghanistan Wars combined.  Much of the protests were orchestrated by the Soviets and that sort of organizer doesn't exist today plus there is nobody with enough to gain to manipulate the press to the extent that it was in the 60s.  In addition, Vietemese attacks were directed at troops for the most part, not innocent people shopping in markets.  

The bottom line is that it is easier for people to see why there was and is a need for nation building in Iraq and it is such a small scale thing that other news can easily bump it to the rear.

Answer 7

WEll there has to be sopme people that care. If you feel passionite about making a change then speak up, brother. Put it on the internet all over. You can be the one to make a change. So go for it!!

Good luck!!!!

Answer 8

It seems from the Q and A that are asked on here that oil prices come no 1 . Therefore the war in Iraq slips down the rating. Perhaps the price of gas is more important to some than the loss of lives.That's the way it seems to me. I just hope that I am wrong

Answer 9

I think people have become numb to it and are slowly giving up a lot of there rights. if only the people in the U.S. could  be more like the French. when they don't like something they head to the streets, protest, heck riot!

as to the people dying in the war, i believe why no one is reacting is because the media reports the deaths and of course people are sad and they report those injured but they fail to follow up on how many have died from their injuries. therefore i believe the number of deaths are down played.

Answer 10

The media used to pay alot of attention to the war because they love to focus on the negative.  Things have been going much better for a while now and of course the media won't even acknowledge it.  As far as I can tell people do care.  Where I am from a religious group comes to protest at military funerals. Holding signs that say God bless IED's People come from all around to hold up sheets and block these morons so parents can bury their children, and wives bury husbands,their children watching it all.  When our families came home from their tour, the entire town was out on the bus route waving flags.  Over 100 bikers led the busses through town.  So don't say no one cares just because the liberal media wont show it on TV

Answer 11

The situation is quickly improving: violence is on a downturn, troops are coming home, 10 of the 18 Iraqi provinces are now in control of the Maliki government and that government is finally starting to rid itself of corruption. So the liberal media sees only good news coming out of Iraq; therefore they don't cover it. That's why people have stopped caring.

Answer 12

More people gotta die before we will care. We're too busy worrying about the price of our precious gasoline. What people don't seem to realize is that, while few soldiers are dying, the cost of the war is bankrupting our future. Its effects will be devastating in the long run. I voted for Al Gore. There's no way he would have gotten us into such a costly and deadly conflict. F*** everyone in Florida who voted for Bush!

Answer 13

We care less today, generally-speaking, then they cared then.

More selfish. More self-centered. More brain-washed.

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