I don't think it'll matter, Ebbie. I think the American people will care, but they'll never see and they are unlikely to even find out about it. If it DID become an issue, the administration will simply say that they issued travel warnings and they shouldn't have been there.

Meanwhile, you'll never see the deaths of civilians, western or otherwise, on the sanitized version presented on CNN. Only supposedly "surgical strikes" filmed from a distance where supposedly "military" targets are hit. You won't see the dead, the dying, the mutilated babies or the demolished hospitals, water treatment plants, and food storage warehouses. You won't see the decades of casualties and lost limbs from cluster bombs and land mines.

The UN estimates 500,000 civilians casualties. We'll never hear about them, any more than the US media covered the 200,000 civilian casualties in the last Gulf War or the 5,000 civilians (mostly children) who die from US sanctions on Iraq.