When The Press Calls For War (Again)
Press Calls for War in the Caucasus: The Smell of Propaganda in the Morning
There are two sides bleeding and too many dead in what is hopefully the aftermath of a weekend war in the Caucasus. And right on cue, the prime opinion space for the American mind is being occupied this Monday morning by a propagandist for perpetual war.
"Will Russia get away with it?" asks the beaming columnist for the New York Times, his smile winking at you as if no way he could be talking up death and disaster.
On one side of the world, writes the propagandist, you have "the United States and its democratic allies." On the other side, you'll find "dictatorial and aggressive and fanatical regimes" who "seem happy to work together to weaken the influence of the United States and its democratic allies."
"The United States, of course, is not without resources and allies to deal with these problems and threats," hints the propagandist. "But at times we seem oddly timid and uncertain." Which brings us around to his winking question again: "Will we let Russia get away with it?"
But what if we paraphrase a famous movie hero and remind the propagandist that aggressive is as aggressive does. Then, we may ask, which side of the propagandist's world last Thursday picked up its guns and blasted a path through the Caucasus Mountains to the city of Tskhinvali, killing as many local militia as possible and quite a few others who somehow got in the way?
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punditman says ...
As usual Big Media are falling right into line in the service of their political masters who think a new Cold War is a neat idea.
Thus, they (Russia)=always Evil
& We (the West and our wonderful allies) =always Good.
Welcome to kindergarten, kids.
Have any of you seen this movie before?
There are two sides bleeding and too many dead in what is hopefully the aftermath of a weekend war in the Caucasus. And right on cue, the prime opinion space for the American mind is being occupied this Monday morning by a propagandist for perpetual war.
"Will Russia get away with it?" asks the beaming columnist for the New York Times, his smile winking at you as if no way he could be talking up death and disaster.
On one side of the world, writes the propagandist, you have "the United States and its democratic allies." On the other side, you'll find "dictatorial and aggressive and fanatical regimes" who "seem happy to work together to weaken the influence of the United States and its democratic allies."
"The United States, of course, is not without resources and allies to deal with these problems and threats," hints the propagandist. "But at times we seem oddly timid and uncertain." Which brings us around to his winking question again: "Will we let Russia get away with it?"
But what if we paraphrase a famous movie hero and remind the propagandist that aggressive is as aggressive does. Then, we may ask, which side of the propagandist's world last Thursday picked up its guns and blasted a path through the Caucasus Mountains to the city of Tskhinvali, killing as many local militia as possible and quite a few others who somehow got in the way?
Full Article ...
punditman says ...
As usual Big Media are falling right into line in the service of their political masters who think a new Cold War is a neat idea.
Thus, they (Russia)=always Evil
& We (the West and our wonderful allies) =always Good.
Welcome to kindergarten, kids.
Have any of you seen this movie before?
5 POVs/Comments:
Andrew Potter, blogging for Macleans, made a good catch yesterday on Harper's take on the issue:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/08/11/his-masters-voice/
Worth reading. He compares comments made by Bush recently to those Harper made.
One been there done that and the smell of fresh Napalm was great when running for your life, but it is horrible past imagining in your dreams.
A question for all these arm chair video game warriors. Where we getting the military and supplies to carry out the saber rattling with an actual saber strike?
They are idiots and assholes the whole bunch.
"Will Russia get away with it?" asks the beaming columnist for the New York Times, his smile winking at you as if no way he could be talking up death and disaster.
Why shouldn't they. We did.
Awww crapola! I thought the video was tomorrow! I thought we were going to get to read "My Pet Goat" today!
CO: thanks for the head's up and the link!
C: you know my reply to your right-on-the-mark comment ... it's all incompetence to me ;-)
K: exactly. The hypocrisy has reached such levels that it has become beyond nauseating ...
TPM: LOL
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