I saw the celebrations on campus when Saigon fell. Amerika beaten down. A triumph for another glorious People's Republic over evil capitalist interests.

Then the curtain was discreetly drawing over the ensuing massacres and imprisonments. When dominoes fell, nobody caresd. When some morally consistent leftists spoke out against this, like Joan Baez, they were shouted down.

There are still many on the Left who see Iraq as another chance to knock Amerika down. Old hippies and radicals with stars in their eyes, marching again, and hoping to see our nation humbled once more.

Only this time the media isn't the voice of God any more, and Walter Cronkite isn't the only one who can "tell us how it is."

Yeah, people aren't reading some newspapers as much, or watching network news as much. Your explanation is apparently that they're stupid. There are other explanations.