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"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 2.22.2003 ::
From Yellow Times: "Uninformed protesters drive the wrong message home"
By Ash Pulcifer, February 21, 2003 @ 16:08:16 EST
[This is actually worth a read]
"Worrying to regional powers is the general theme of this administration developed by nationalist administration members Elliott Abrams, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz. These figures shaped the National Security Strategy of the United States of America, released by the White House in September of 2002. In this document, the Bush administration warned that they "will not hesitate to act alone" in defending the American people. While this sounds noble to the average American, it is not hard to see how this statement is a justification for U.S. military interventions in nearly any corner of the globe. It is not difficult for a government to scrounge up some minute threat and then drive the American public into fear in order to gain support for public policy. Looking back only three decades, the American government initially had an easy time justifying their involvement in Vietnam by saying that American lives were in imminent danger through some far reaching communist conspiracy; they stated that while Vietnam may not be a direct threat to the American people, Vietnam was merely a puppet of the Soviets and Chinese who were a direct threat to the American way of life. After U.S. involvement in Vietnam ended, it become painstakingly clear to Americans that no such communist conspiracy existed in Vietnam; they found that the Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi resented the Chinese and the Soviets just as they resented the Americans."
"This unrestrained superpower status that the Bush administration desires is the lynchpin reason why there is so much official resistance from regional powers against U.S. plans in Iraq. Yet rarely anyone protesting in the streets of New York and London publicizes these motives. Instead, they march down the alleyways with their traditional mantra "No blood for oil," incorrect as it is, and are unwilling to listen to any views that force them to rethink their argument."
"To give credit to the left, those on the right are in a similar dilemma. Ignoring the massive history of U.S. government lies, from Vietnam to Nicaragua, these self-proclaimed 'patriotic' Americans still believe that their government is only interested in peace and spreading the seeds of American morality throughout the world. When it comes to incorrect assumptions, and uncompromising dogma, the left and the right have more in common than they can even begin to comprehend."
posted by me
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