It's there, but it's in the current equivalent media location that page 23 of the newspaper used to be. Because no one cares enough for the media to hype it, if they cared the media would be all over it, the media brings people the news people want. So compared to Tiger and Sandra Bullock, the Iraq war is sooooo yesterday. Vietnam was a different story, because there was a draft, people you knew were involved, if you were of draft age it could be you, you might even need your daddy to get you into the national guard to avoid the unpleasantness, or get a doctor to write you a note. But with this all-volunteer military, it's all self selected, and so removed from most peoples world as to be of no interest at all.