Another westerner abducted in Iraq? Eh.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,177122,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1357878

Does anyone give a shit anymore?

I haven't really been through any media wars except Iraq, so is this new- or is Iraq the first war that's falling second-page?

I'm talking in terms of a general concern about how it's going, not a patriotic rush every 2 and a half years when they first get the vote or they knock down a statue. It seems pretty ridiculous to expect us to care about a war we haven't seen being fought, for a cause which we won't benefit from. This isn't saving the world, after all, it's fighting the ideas of a country's own inhabitants, there's no real way to "win," unlike Vietnam.

So I'm asking, when is it OK to stop making it a frontpage story? There's better things to worry about, after all, and learning about new abductees and getting updated stats on how many Americans were blown up in a single month is going to lose its draw eventually. Actually, I think it happened a few years back.

I mean: will newspapers put Iraq headlines at a cost loss in the future? Or will the war soon be declared won, and the dying soldiers and abducted carpenters just not receive notices?

You can't really make this kind of generalization. Just like not every "westerner" as we're called (I am from south america btw) hates those LOL ISLAMIC FAGGOTS WITH TOWELS ON THEIR HEADS WHO SCREAM AGHRGAHGGUEAGFGH WHILE WAVING THEIR AKs AROUND, not every inhabitant from the countries you invade (and waste the lives of your soldiers on... really) hate "us".
Bush has made a terrible job in his administration so far, shitting all over your faces, yet he gets a second term. Which is why I don't scoff anymore at the comparations made between the Roman Empire and the U.S.A.