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People stopped caring when the media stopped showing dead American boys on TV every night. Start showing dead Americans (or dead foreign women and kids) on TV every night and you'll have protests in the streets again just like they did during Vietnam.
War isn't ugly when you don't have to see it. But as soon as you are forced to see the horrible reality of it, everything changes.
"10 Americans died today in Afghanistan" has zero weight behind it. But if you show the mutilated bodies of those 10 young American boys, reality hits you pretty hard.
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