Casualties of War

The horrors of war have come home to Little Mickey Kaus:

If you're like me (or Instapundit), you're now caught in a vicious postwar bind. You're completely sick of the war -- sick of watching cable, sick of reading the paper.

Inexplicably, the irresponsible mainstream press has focused on the suffering of the families of dead G.I.s and, to a much lesser extent, dead Iraqi civilians and maimed and homeless Iraqi children. And those Baghdad residents, with their incessant bitch bitch bitching about the lack of power, medicine and law and order. Is there no one who has compassion for the true victims of this war? Innocents like Mickey suffer for hours, if not days, searching in vain for Lou Dobbs Moneyline or a long feature article about Gary Condit or welfare mothers. Not to mention the fact television and newspapers have become malevolent living beings and have forced the Neocon Slaphead to consume their content every waking second.

The Vietnam War lasted for years. How did Mickey survive those long years of boredom, sitting around his dorm room and his parents' rec room with no hope in sight for a speedy resolution to the conflict?

All I can say is, thank God I'm not like you (or Instapundit), Mick.