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Darth_Faction · #22 (**permalink**) 03-22-2003, 10:14 AM

I love how desensitized that our society is to anything that's important.

9/11 rolls around. 3,000 people die, another thousand injured. They forget in two months.

The Columbia Crashes at Re-Entry - A week later, no one cares

War in Iraq Begins, people are dying - People don't even care from the get go.

We are watching the first full-scale American invasion of another country and its assets in over a decade, and people don't have the interest to care, or even the courtesy to let those who do appreciate it. This isn't a movie, like you seem to think. In fact, it's very real. I know people who are in Kuwait and Iraq, and I know people who have relatives and friends over there. It is important that we support those people, and if it means devoting a week of television to accurately covering the people that are risking their lives FOR YOU instead conveniencing you to watch some stupid bullshit about how your school is getting a new network system installed, or so you can watch friends or survivor, then that is the ethical and moral way about it. If you have an inability to watch what's going on, then don't. It's quite obvious that you are un-American. Yes, Un-American. If you won't give support in even the most minute and, though small, hardly insignificant ways then you, sir, are a plague and toxin that has infested the passionate red blood that flows through this country. And if you want to ignore those men and women, some of which who don't want to be there but refuse to ignore their duty to themselves and America, then I would appreciate it if you went to Iraq back 5 years and tell me whether anyone gives a flying fuck what you want to watch on television.

Ass.