Hacker News Reader

> Geez the amount of wildlife they have killed - no-one will go to prison and it's practically the crime of the century.

The Iraq invasion by USA happened in this very century.

View on HN

So did 9/11, for that matter, which probably outranks the BP thing in many people's minds.

Very good point. I can't believe I've fallen for the lack of that in the news cycle.

Going to war is like a different, almost underground part of society now.

It's just hard to sustain public interest when it isn't getting particularly worse, isn't getting particularly better, isn't going away, and we are not in imminent danger. If we felt threatened and outraged like we did in past wars, people would be hanging on every word out of the news.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com