Are you "detached" from the war in Iraq?

[MannyIsGod]

gotcha!

[mookie2001]

i think about iraq many times a day

[spurschick]

Spurschick,
maybe that was a different book you saw in Barnes & Noble. This book doesn't come out until October, but I think it will definitely be worth the read.

Went back today and it was a different book called Basrah, Baghdad, and Beyond... thought it was the one you were talking about.

[cherylsteele]

There is a war in Iraq???

[Cant_Be_Faded]

I was visiting some friends of mine in California and they were talking about how America has mostly forgotten about our troops in Iraq; that most Americans are simply not interested in what's going on over there and that we, as a nation, are largely detached from the situation. They also made the point that they didn't know one person serving in Iraq or Afghanistan. (I told them it would help if they actually knew someone in the military, but what are you gonna do with some people?)

Anyway, I hold the opposite view. I feel very aware, even a little wrapped up in, the war in Iraq, even though I'm not close friends with anyone who is over there right now. I live in the Washington area where the war is on everyone's minds. I was in Texas recently where I saw plenty of symbols people still care (yellow ribbons, flags, Support Our Troops stickers etc). But in California, I saw nothing to indicate that our troops in Iraq was an issue many people cared about.

So, what about you all? How connected or detached do you think ordinary Americans are to this situation in Iraq?

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