The US and Israel are fighting fire with gasoline (rant)...

[Locut0s]

We all know that Bush is mind numbingly stupid but the same can not be said for those in power behind him, and lets face it they are the ones running the show. The idea of a "War on Terror" certainly wasn't Bush's idea even if he is the one mouthing the words. Take the last two words off and you have what this is and always was about, just war, it has nothing to do with terrorism. Still it's amazing to see how many people actually believe that the US and Israel are really trying to fight terrorism, even if they believe they are not doing so successfully. The very idea is laughable really. Terrorism almost by definition feeds on war and suffering which is all the US and Israel are creating. People seem surprised that the people in Lebanon support the Hezbollah, well of course they support them, Hezbollah funds schools, hospitals and other good works where the government doesn't care. Want to bet what they are teaching in those schools though? So let me get this straight the way to stop terrorism is to confirm everything the terrorists say about you, by acting unilaterally, violently and without much regard to civilian casualties, by using torture, by bulldozing over sensitive religious issues (simmering for hundreds of years) with glib remarks? Well you might as well go into Hezbollah, Iraq, and the Gaza strip yourself with a petition to sign up suicide bombers. But I guess I shouldn't be surprised considering the state of the modern media.

It's a wonder to behold the media going on and on about the war on terrorism, be it CNN or any other news network, spouting government issued sound bites as if they were carefully researched pieces of journalism. All points of view, as long as they are right wing points, are given equal weighting be they some right wing wacko saying we've got to bomb them into the stone age or some slightly less right individual marked as left wing (the "voice of reason") or a slightly left individual ("on the radical fridge) or the latest tid bit about Mel Gibson's DUI arrest. Surely it can't be healthy for kids growing up being fed a steady stream of this bullshit?! Gee what's more important 10,000 people killed in an illegal war, or is it legal and just?, or the latest trend in hair styles. Well according to CNN they are all equally important and true.

[Philosoraptor]

1. We're in the Twilight Zone, there's no other explanation.

I can only conclude that the U.S. is deliberately throwing gas on the fire in a deliberate attempt to conquer the middle east, and then the planet.

[Locut0s]

4. I think that "empire building" has long been...

in the backs of the minds of US leaders, perhaps not back to the founding fathers but for much of this century it has been at least, even if not consciously.

[Philosoraptor]

5. I admire the quite, neutral nations.

Scandinavia? Finland? Iceland? and dozens of others who never make unnecessary wars or interfere with other nation's governments.

I wish we too would turn inward and give up the roman empire bit.

[Glorfindel]

2. Watching CNN or any other "news" network is voluntary...

why subject yourself to it? I don't. I can only speak for myself, but I haven't watched TV in more than 20 years, and I haven't missed a thing. Your EXCELLENT rant just confirms my opinion. :toast:

[Locut0s]

3. While that is true, it's still just as worrying that...

the vast majority of people out there are watching this stuff and sucking it up like the cotton candy that it is. The fact that I don't have to watch it doesn't change the fact that everyone else does and is influenced by it and it is this that is upsetting.