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the trouble with arguments of perspective is that most people are unable to form an informed opinion without regurgitating what the politicians or media present.
you have on one hand... an administration with a vested interest in accentuating the positive.
on the other you have a media environment that has everything to gain by sensationalizing any violence that makes a good news story.
what if you judged your own community by what you saw on the local news? what if your only source of information about your hometown came from the mayor? the picture would be blood-n-guts/crime/corruption from the first source and rosy from the second.
yet each one of us makes (what we consider to be) fully rational and informed decisions about some place on the other side of the world based on two methods few of us wholly trust.
i think it's time to call bullshit not just on the media and the politicians... but on eachother when our opinions of such matters are completely based upon the aforementioned sources.
i'm not suggesting that citizens give up searching for the truth of a matter, just that they recognize the limitations of the medium in which they perceive it. war has become a reality show, politics has become verbal sport... many of you (us?) are too far removed from the real consequences of the decisions being made to have anything meaningful to say about it.
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If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
~ Winston Churchill
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