Wednesday, September 15, 2004

As Americans debate Vietnam, the U.S. death toll tops 1,000 in Iraq. And the insurgents are still getting stronger

Pity that the majority of Americans are notably people who don´t think of these kind of things or care about them. At best they are herd animals, at worst they simply don´t care if they know and most of the time they just don´t know.

One can claim that there are tens of millions of Americans who know and who oppose the war. Yes, but they are not the majority, they have never been and sadly they probably will not be in the foreseeable future.

The support of the war in Iraq and that it hasn´t dented the gallup ratings of Bush isn´t so surprising when you take this dim view of the Americans. After all, even when South Vietnam fell in 1975, third of the Americans thought that they should still have had ground troops in Vietnam, continuing the war.