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| Jan 19, 2007 7:20 pm |
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re: re: The other side of Iraq is outside the frame of reference ... |
James Booth
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Whether or not what is on Defense website is verified, verifiable, undetermined, or determinable ...
... is beside the point.
Certainly it is reasonable to suppose that somehow, with all that has occurred and all that has been spent, SOMEWHERE somehow SOME good must have been accomplished - simply impossible that all 30 million Iraqis themselves can have done nothing good even for themselves in the last five years.
The "information" available on that site is NOT under control of *corporate media* which will NOT report such *news* because that might suggest perhaps the "mission" really is accomplished, for which it would be reasonable to expect that any TRUE *journalist* would AT LEAST be asking why the U.S. is not already withdrawing from Iraq.
Added to which, if U.S. withdrawal was underway, and when withdrawal is actually accomplished, corporate media has to *fill the void* - find something else with which to manufacture fear in order to fill its airspace and printed pages ...
*stay tuned* for continued profits
... not to mention renegotiating advertising contracts, replacing ads not relevant to the new "threat"
It seems to occur to no one who has participated in this thread so far - none of whom that I know of have ever been in a war zone - that DOD has to somehow provide to the U.S. military information which gives soldiers and sailors, whose lives are on the line every minute of every day, some sense of accomplishment - SOMEHOW.
My read is that a military mutiny is a real possibility right now, and it does not surprise me at all to see DOD provide something which might keep the troops "on the job" - "boost" their morale as it were.
Divide and Conquer
There is bound to be a massive split in a society in which some think they know what are the effects of war on an individual, while others live it every day.
America is a conquered nation.
It saddens and frustrates me to think that after what we have learned through these pages, some among us STILL assume the person who is privileged to sit in the chair behind the desk in the Oval Office actually controls anything; still believes there is some Left vs Right, or Republican vs Democrat agenda, or some such which in any way meaningfully determines what is "reported" on television.
What is displayed on that tube is what has been determined to be "of interest" to viewers
- to keep those viewers coming back.
In that way, what is displayed on that tube may have little, if anything, to do with reality now.
NOW when *Reality TV* is pure staged fantasy, eh ?
Asking "Why does Bush want to send 21,000 more?" misses the *reality* that GWB ...
Anything he says or does.
... is little more than a sideshow - a puppet show at that
- like putting kids in one room with a whole day's supply of movies on VHS and CD
... while "parents" cope with the "storm" outside.
Looking at the numbers here, I cannot help but think how difficult it must be for most folks to attempt, or even consider, the "maladjusted" life - to go beyond "accepted thinking" or to look past the "pretty colours" so as to begin see a larger picture ...
Simply too much I suppose
... and what would be accomplished if the *many* did begin to see a larger picture
- more suicides ? Despair ? Fear of anarchy ?
Saddens me to see people who could be accomplishing something together still skirmishing with each other over trivialities.
Would a "larger picture" do anything at all to help anyone live life better ?
Yesterday, I listened to a man who thinks his opinions stand for the *good* of Oregon citizens say that he puts people above the environment.
His opinion, which makes him a buck and a friend today ... but he cannot answer what we will do when we discover that a *sustained* practice of putting humans FIRST and environment a lesser priority results in an environment that cannot support human life.
I think not only educators have to be aware that what people are pointing at, what the "buzz" is about, may be ...
outside the carefully crafted *frame* in which people are seen pointing, heard buzzing
- *nothing at all* -
It is what you make of it.
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