America's short attention span: Exhibit A

Cuba has a literacy rate of 97%. How the US could benefit from such a system...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5014199/

John Van Note, who is a member of the 39th Infantry Brigade Army Reserve unit, complained about the extensive news coverage of the scandal.

“It needs to be shut down, they need to quit it now because all it’s doing is stirring up more trouble for us when we go," Van Note said.

"It's not something everybody wants to see or hear all the time," he added. "You get tired of hearing about the same thing over and over and over on TV. We're tired of hearing about the scandals of the abuse that's over and done with."

Sgt. Larry Best with the 4th ID agreed. "I think we should move on from it. We all know what happened already. Nothing good can come of it if (we) keep playing it over and over."

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Soldiers having breakfast at a local motel sent an inadvertent message about their sentiment regarding Sivits' court martial.

At the dramatic moment when networks reported the sentence, the military men and women in the coffee shop were not watching the news.

Rather they had tuned into ESPN for sports scores and highlights instead.

Here's the videofile...America's dumbest:

http://msnvideo.msn.com/video/default.aspx?setcp=B&list=undefined_undefined&prepend=819899c1-7571-4b18-a717-22f9d2c810bc&undock=true