Afghanistan now unpopular

Is it the fact it has gone on so long or is it the lack of media attention? I really wonder. Bloggers have a hard time finding stories sometimes, but they are out there.
The absence of TV coverage however removes the ability of the casual observer to learn much at all unless there is something catastrophic requiring an interruption of the celebrity coverage holding so much more importance. It really is a shame we manage to do so much to send them to fight these battles but our interest seems to fade too soon. War is not like a TV series that ends when summer begins. It's not a fill in show for the summer viewer. It doesn't take holidays. It lasts until it's over and in too many case for those we send, it lasts as long as their life does. So why are we comfortable treating it like something unworthy of our attention?

Vietnam in Afghanistan: Now an Unpopular War

By Spencer Ackerman 8/7/09 4:23 PM
A new CNN poll has found, for what I think is the first time, a majority of Americans opposed to the war in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials and Afghanistan-watchers have thought for months that this moment was inevitable: public support for Afghanistan, those people thought, was broad mostly because of media neglect. Now, with Marines dying in Helmand Province, soldiers dying in the east, and reporters covering the war more than ever since 2002, the numbers have met their inevitable date with gravity.

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