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?

...yeah, if every problem the US had was solved by flinging napalm at it, we'd have half the world still churning fumes out of thousands of charred corpses. You may think little of the random civilian dwellers, and believe that your life is worth 1000 of theirs, but that's not true. I don't think the innocent bystander, or the little children wish to be killed.