Phew! Some other news please...

[azooey]

So. Its ceasefire. Like a belated birthday wish, that arrives in true melancholic lyricism of a Shakespearan tragedy. Minus the finality.

After an eleventh hour huff-n-puff effort to bomb each other black and blue, it was conclusively decided that they had bombed each other into, well, a darker shade of black and blue. Frankly, atleast the

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[azooey]

Ahh, finally... someone who obviously cares more for the bird population in Bandipur than the primate population in Gaza :) Frankly, I dont give two friggin hoots abt who beats the shit out of whom. And it wouldnt change radically, if the war happened in Africa or even Bangladesh, for that matter. I'm glad its off the air waves - the stench was getting hard to bear.

[smokediceman]

Perhaps because this war ran the danger of having repurcussions far beyond the area in which it was fought, perhaps because it was viewed as a proxy war between the world's only remaining superpower and the one nation that has consistently defied it, perhaps because oil is involved.
Let there be war in Nigeria with it's oil wells and the world will notice. Rwanda, Burundi and Darfur, the outside world doesn't care as much.

[smokediceman]

Or perhaps it's just because you live in that superpower nation and we don't
It's quite irrelevant where I live. The fact that a superpower is involved implies it's not a localized event anymore.

To completely ignore war simply because it's inevitable is naive, especially when said war has the potential to mushroom into something that radically affects everyone's lives worldwide. How much ever one dislikes it, we don't lead lives isolated from the rest of the world.

[smokediceman]

For me, I'd rather see this news on page 10 or something like that and gradually move up to page 1 if India's getting close to being involved or affected.
That's a fair point.
We are all however at fault if the media fixates on the gory details of war. If we as the audience weren't as fascinated with violence, the media would have no incentive to deluge us with such excessive coverage.

[azooey]

As myopic as it may sound, some of us identify an near identical situation back home, though with several times lower stakes. A regional superpower and a nation that consistently defies it. The absence of oil doesnt exactly make the situation inconsequential to the world.

So while we silently play the waiting game at our own borders, how much do u think we care for someone else's border or proxy war.

[smokediceman]

I don't get it. You say we shouldn't care about wars elsewhere in the world, wars whose consequences almost certainly will affect us, because we choose not to get into one at our borders?
We probably don't and shouldn't care as much about the Middle East, but it isn't entirely irrelevant. The amount of coverage the war received in the media might be disproportionately excessive but that I once again attribute to morbid love of violence.

[fus]

if you havent been noticing China is blocking any resolution being passed by the security council on Darfur, China has oil interests in Sudan