by StarmanSkye » Fri Dec 11, 2009 7:09 pm
Good catch.
Also, somewhat related, yesterday evening on the station that hosts Coast to Coast the top-of-hour 'news' highlight included the tidbit that in a recent poll American citizens cited 'concern' that NATO would not take its role in the Afghan war seriously enough.
I was like, WHaaaa? I don't know of ANYBODY whose worried or concerned about this -- most people I know think the US made a huge mistake to get involved in Afghanistan, that we're there under false pretenses, over-extended and in a losing battle with an abstract enemy. They're far more angered or distressed over prospects the US will be in Afghanistan for a generation or more, like the US has been in South Korea, Japan and Germany. So this notion that Americans are 'concerned' NATO won't pull their weight is most certainly a blatant opinion-management psyop showing once again to folks whose eyes aren't welded shut how devious, manipulative and complicit the mainstream media is in unquestioningly parroting the military-industrial establishment's foreign policy agenda.
Which is also what the apparently misleading BS about '30 Taliban insurgents' killed by a drone-fired missile-attack is about. I can't even imagine how utterly terrible it would be living under the threat of instant-death from the air for being a 'suspect person.'
My GOD, decent people ought to be in-arms, outraged ovr such a monstrous violation of the US's most basic precept re: the absolute value of an individual's human and civil rights. Now, routinely, hundreds of people are killed or horrifically injured by the US's wanton disregard for the well-being of civilians. US complicity in betraying Afghanistan's people is an atrocious blot that NO amount of violence can 'fix' -- it's so insane that an illegal war which the US prosecuted on its own after realizing the UN would never condone it has now achieved the status of a legitimate conflict requiring NATO participation. I doubt more than 30% of the American public supports it -- and then only as the result of tremendous disinfo and false reporting that portrays it as a 'good fight'.
Such incredible bullshit.
When are America's 'leaders' finally going to be held accountable for their war crimes?
Until then, America can have NO moral credibility whatsoever. We all ought to be ashamed at allowing ourselves to be cheated out of the promise of progressive, just, enlightened democratic self-rule.
Sometimes I think we're de-evolving as a species, becoming more brutish, stupid, unthinking, crude and self-defeating.
We fall for the dumbest shit.
