Addressing America about war (4/10: in-class assignment)

America-

In our day and age, war is a topic that isn't addressed as openly and truthfully as it needs to be. It's true that the media lets the truth trickle through from time to time, but that's simply not enough. We are in a war with close to 150,000 american men and women; a war that many Americans don't have one clue about. The dialogue regarding war, in our media and even in daily conversation with our peers, seems very reserved in comparison to what the actuality of the situation seems to be. This is a huge, multi-billion dollar endeavor that our country has committed to in Iraq and the news simply brushes on the fact that we are there. What should be provided in the media is a detailed, truthful reflection about the war that we are fighting, not a simple brush upon it. We could improve this mass-forum of communication (the news) in regards to addressing the current war in Iraq by simply being more honest about the condition of the war. Usually at war time, the media doesn't address the cold,hard facts of the situation because that would only provide the country with anti-patriotic thoughts, which isn't such a great approach. The war is something that is going to decide so much for our country, including our next commander-in-chief; Because of this, this country deserves the truth. It has been made obvious through other military-based media outlets (ie: films) that the war isn't as innocent as our media depicts it to be, which just another solid reason for the mass-media to be more upfront with us. As the wise Eli Wiesel said in his speech "The perils of indifference," ...To be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman;" Our ignorance to the war in Iraq, which is mostly feed by the media, needs to change because the indifference to our dying soldiers' condition is only showing our flee from morality/humanity. Without understanding and concern for our peers we've lost everything that it means to be human, and the media is preventing this concern.