Short Attention Span Political Theater

Just playing through...

What I find really infuriating about these posts from Kevin Drum and Engram is the almost out-loud assumption that Iraqis possess an attention span roughly similar to their own when contemplating Iraqi deaths. The span seems to be around one month.

I suppose it's nominally better than, say, Shrub or Erik Prince, who can't be bothered at all, petulant expressions of non-regret aside...but I don't think I'm stepping out on a limb in suggesting that Iraqis themselves might view their collective tragedy through a different lens, one that doesn't fade on quite so quick a time frame.

Sad to say, it seems that the same dismissal of death as merely a monthly statistic is also becoming somewhat routine when noting military deaths. In fact, it's sadly ironic that victims of this totally insane war are forgotten far more quickly than the 9/11 victims, who continue to be exploited by professional ghouls like Rudy Guiliani. Recent casualties fall off the radar screen with such haste that it's not unreasonable to think of the war fetishists as pornographic in their psycopathic obsessions, forever needing new, fresh victims to satisfy their very creepy blood lust.

Even more amazing is that they consider themselves civilized in comparison to the Middle Eastern "savages" who they're trying to "uplift and Christianize." Go figure.