On this Pearl Harbor Day...
Guest note by Rusty
Today is the 65th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, "a day that will live in infamy". Because of the decisive action taken in response to the attack we are blessed to live in the America of today and to have Japan as a true ally, friend, and of course huge trading partner...News articles proclaim....”America looks back on Pearl Harbor”
What will the headlines say on September 11, 2066. ? Will they even be in English, or perhaps Arabic? Will we still be in this war, or will we still exist at all...Whether we choose to or not, will we still be be free to go to church next Sunday (or perhaps Temple next Saturday) or will we be implored to go to mosque on Friday...Will women be able to read the newspapers at all or will they be sequestered at home with their babies? Will we watch the news on TV or will television and movies have been banned?
The difficulties we have faced in Iraq are not accidental, nor are they a result of grossly bad planning. There are dark forces of extremism that are outside of Iraq that are compounding our difficulties considerably and intentionally. At some point we will have to reckon with that. I don’t think we can wait 65 years.
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Yours truly
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12/07/06 @ 04:45:58 pm
What will the headlines say in 2066? I suppose that depends; on whether or not the presently somnambulant populace has figured out that we've been played like good, stupid but obeisant puppets.
If they continue to sleepwalk, they'll just get more infomercials interspersed with more infotainment, from the one remaining media consortium that was allowed to consolidate all forms of "news" media. (In a surprise move, WalMart today acquired MicroSoft, Inc., and with it the AOL TimeWarner Knight-RidderViacom News Corp . In approving the move, the outgoing FCC Chairman and newly announced WalMart spokesmant said that this consolidation will benefit the public by allowing one-stop shopping for ALL human needs.
As for the messages, they will only very slightly from the following staples of daily "news":
Consume More. Buy. Don't ask why we must know what you read, watch, write or say, and with whom you are meeting. Fear "the enemy" (and if we say someone is the enemy, don't question it) Obey. Accept whatever we tell you must be done "for the good of the country". Sacrifice YOUR sons and daughters (so we won't have to sacrifice our own). Get along.
As for the "difficulties in Iraq"....I agree they were not "accidental". This was due to a horrible plan, hatched by empire-seeking neo-cons, which led to results which I and many others predicted...long before the invasion was actually launched. It was af if very stupid men, seeing the words "minefield" and "quagmire" saw those words as challenges....and sent men blindly to their deaths for nothing more than unrealizable dreams of conquest. No, this was no accident. It was an unprovoked attack, initiated under knowingly false pretext, by an incompetent ninny that the neo-cons knew could be manipulated into any decision they wanted. This will be known as Bush's war, but it was also Rummy's war, and it was Wolfowitz's and Perle's war. Neo-con Republicans all; abetted by a Congress which let their fears of being labeled "soft on terrorism" lead them to abdicate their serious responsibilities regarding war.