Some may think this is an oversimplification, but most in the West want the war on Islamic Fascists stopped because the ratings aren't good. Despite the reality of the World Trade Center and the Madrid train bombings, many people seem to believe they can change the channel, and the war will be over, and reality becomes "What Not to Wear" or Monday Night Football. I really don't think a lot of people can tell the difference between reality and entertainment.
I know. I think most people are so inundated with a media blitz that their eyes glaze over and the sublime and the ridiculous become interchangeable. Even on the more "serious" cable programs hosts and guests interrupt each other, cross-talk, and jabber simultaneously. They degenerate into what George Will calls, "high-volume, low-brow cable shout-a-thons".
One good thing about them for me - I have more time for reading good material!
I hope you're wrong...that at least the majority of people know better. Yet what are most of us other than bystanders to this fight between the West and the heinous terrorists and any countries who support them?
In order to get through our daily lives, with the non-ending problems we have to try to overcome, or accept when there is no solution, I think we're entitled to seek some peace and pleasure, whether it be a sports event, a movie, or whatever it takes to let us keep on doing the tough stuff of daily life.