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Originally Posted by cliffdweller
The apathy is deafening isn't it? And that was in 2003? Bad sign. You know, it really shocks me [although it shouldn't  ] that a lot of the protest and dissention against this war has died down to such a quiet indifference lately. Either people are too self-absorbed to care (I HOPE that's not the case), or it's the frustrated hands tied behind the back syndrome, i.e., Bush has made too huge of a mess to sort this out any longer, and it's gone on too long  |
Do you really think dissention has died down? Dubya's poll numbers consistently hit record lows every week these days, and the main thing dragging them down is the fact that people feel the Iraq conflict is a miserable failure and we either need to dramatically change course or get the hell out of there.
If things seem quiet right now, that's only because it's December. Congress isn't in session, and people are focused on the holidays. Wait until things in Washington get rolling again in January, there will plenty of fresh decrying of this war.
Meanwhile, General Wesley Clark had a very interesting op-ed piece in the New York Times earlier this week about how neither the Democrats nor the Republicans have a real, viable plan to make things better in Iraq. He does, though, and he does a nice job outlining it.