how the media works...

[curmugeon]

The war goes on... but in America the only people paying attention are those family and friends who suffer the loss.... to stop the war, the war has to be visible... but the curent state of this country and the politics of the media/military/financial complex is to suppress the news. War is good business, the government spends billions on war, a perfect example of the power of the complex. What can we do to break this hold? We need to find a way... I see defense contractors and the people who work for them as nothing more than welfare kings and queens of the war machine.
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maybe it sounds cynically but American losses in Afganistan are not so large
they are comparable with deathes in accidents

In my opinion supreme NATO Command considers Afganistan as large military polygon with "soft" targets (mojaheds are armed with obsolete hand grenade launchers and automatic rifles). At the same time army gets experience of being "under fire". It means much for future, "serious" wars.

Also they defend their business (Production of heroin (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sponsored/russianow/politics/7847007/Heroin-production-in-Afghanistan-has-grown-by-40-times-says-Russian-drugs-tsar.html) growed 40 time since the beginning of the invasion)