"You could blame people who were too lazy to read a newspaper, who were bored by the daily body counts, who switched channels at the mention of politics." -pg. 170
Nothing has changed between that war and the current one. At first we started out paying close attention to how many soldiers died. But as the war drags on, people who do not know someone overseas seem to give a cold response to it. They would rather watch "Lost" than the news. And even those who do watch the news don't get a true vision. Even reporters move on, choosing to talk mostly about state budgets, bailouts, and local murders. When a soldier from Indiana dies, it gets some coverage on the news and an excerpt in the papers, but mostly everyone manages to go about their day. I cannot recall the last time I heard anything about the war. And so O'Brien was right to blame us. We should care more, because we are the ones who can put pressureon the politicians.
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