Previously here, we have written about the New York Times and its single-minded mission to print all the news that’s fit to smear the right, and all the treason fit to print.
Now let’s talk about CNN.com. As blatant as the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and Atlanta Journal Constitution are about being liberally biased, (and as in denial as papers such as the Philadelphia Inquirer are about it), CNN.com is insidious. Some of the things they do are very slickly handled. For instance, anything that is embarrassing to the Bush Administration is left up on their website for over a week, while anything embarrassing to the liberals is up and gone in a flash. That way, they can say, “We covered it!”
Sure they can. Like the newspapers listed above, they manufacture issues where none exist, or blow them all out of proportion.
Here is an example of one that CNN.com currently has running as a sub under another story. The main story on their web site is one announcing the discovery of a mass grave in Karbala, Iraq, containing the remains of about twenty victims of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen from a period in 1991 when there was an uprising against him, which was brutally put down. Now, I can guarantee you that this story, which adds fuel to the reason why we went to war with Iraq (it wasn’t just WMDs, that EVERYONE agreed were there, it was also the human rights violations committed by the Saddam Hussein regime – it’s in the archives, you could look it up), will not have a long life on CNN.com. But one of their “Watch” videos is an almost 4 minute piece by Nic Robertson (This Gulf War’s Peter Arnett – about as duplicitously anti-American as you can get, and Arnett was indeed discredited after the first Gulf War. What saved him from sabotage or treason charges was his foreign citizenship, and the intelligence he inadvertently leaked with his stories. He was a foreigner who made his career and living off anti-American reporting for American media). This piece is called Marines must deal with the moral issue of killing the enemy . Hello? On the surface, it appears to be a sympathetic piece, and even handed.
Nothing can obsess the liberals as much as a war, and nothing can stir their fires as much as killing an enemy. Watch if CNN leaves this story up at all (they won’t, because the Marine makes it quite clear in the piece that when it comes down to the Iraqi going home, or the Marine, it is always the Marine.), but they might because he also talks about a situation where they saw (at great distance) a group of Iraqis digging in the ground. Figuring it to be an IED, they zeroed in on them and killed them. Later intel confirmed they were building the foundation for their home. (That should stir up the progressives and make them madder than wet hens. And I believe that is the intent of the piece.)
They are casualties of war. They are regrettable, and they cost a man who commits that act, peace for the rest of his life. But so does killing the uniformed enemy solder charging at the Marine’s position.
In the opening sequence of the 1970 film “Patton”, George C. Scott recreates a famous speech given by the real General Patton to his 3rd Army troops on the eve of D-Day, June 5, 1944. In his sanitized version - the real Patton was much saltier than the one portrayed by Scott in a magnificent tour de force – Patton cautioned his men about “chickening out” in combat:
Now, some of you boys, I know, are wondering whether or not you'll chicken-out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure you that you will all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them. Spill their blood. Shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch of goo that a moment before was your best friend's face, you'll know what to do.
Patton insisted that the proper way to soldier was not to die for this country, but to make the other guy die for his. Indeed, that’s how you win a war. He said, in the same speech:
Now, I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George Patton had it absolutely correct.
There are no longer any uniformed soldiers fighting against the new Iraqi government and the continuing American presence in Iraq, just vicious, unprincipled murderous thugs who kill for no ideal other than they want to control Iraq, while 11 million Iraqis periodically and repeatedly dip their fingers in purple ink when voting against the that very concept. They have been made irrelevant, because what they are doing now, is simply, unadulterated murder. They are not, and have not swayed anyone to their particular religious brand of extremism, except like minded individuals from across the Arab world, and forces ordered into Iraq from surrounding Arabic countries, mainly Syria and Iran, who have a political stake in the insurgency, doomed as it is.
The problem we are facing right now is that the Iraqis, who are rapidly assuming the responsibility for policing and protecting their own country, still require a U.S. presence to suppress the insurgency enough to allow democracy to spread and flourish, and take a firm root in the new Iraq. Were we to pull out now, Iraq would fall in a few months, if not to direct military intervention by Syria and/or Iran, then to their minions who will grab power through violence and murder, and install an extremist Islamic government in Iraq – a twin of Iran. Democracy in Iraq will die a quick death, and it will make meaningless the deaths of some 30,000 Iraqis, and over 2,000 Americans, plus other members of the international coalition.
Since the time Cain picked up a rock and crushed Abel’s skull with it, man has been violently killing man. From the caveman who killed his neighbor in the next cave because he had better animal pelts to wear, to the Romans who killed Jesus because it was politically expedient, to the Middle Ages when Christians and Muslims slaughtered each other in the name of religion, to the Great Wars of the Twentieth Century, men (and women) have been killing each other over various ideals.
We Americans like to think we have a good handle on such things as human rights, human dignity, moral high ground, Liberty, Freedom, and Democracy. We may sometimes do the wrong things, but they will be done for the right reasons. We will never do something for the wrong reason. We have, since becoming a full-fledged nation among nations, and able to stand equally among the nations of the earth at the end of our American Civil War, liberated people from oppression in Central America, the Caribbean, the Philippines, and even once in Mexico. We have freed the (most ungrateful) French from the German jackboots twice in the past century, and with the help of Great Britain (and on one occasion, the Soviet Union) freed most of the rest of Europe as well, not once, but twice. We pretty much defeated the Japanese in WW II by ourselves, and liberated millions throughout Asia from a brutal racist regime.
Late in the century we destroyed Nazism, Fascism, and lastly, defeated Communism without firing a shot. We have spread Democracy across the planet, and have done so to the betterment of all mankind. All of those ‘isms’ were extremist socio-political ideals where one small group found a path to power, and Democracy was left dangling in the wind.
There is still much to do, like Tibet, Nepal, and to see that Palestine gets a square deal, and so, too the Israelis. We will soon be dealing with the rise of a new brand of communism in South America, already manifesting itself in the northern part of that continent.
All-in-all, we’ve done pretty well for mankind. The scales are balanced almost exclusively in our favor.
So why this media blitz to make war wrong, especially when diplomacy has failed?
Perhaps the left needs to take a look at things, in particular, what they, themselves, are doing and have been doing.
[Cartoon Source: Glenn McCoy by Glenn McCoy; ©2005 Belleville News-Democrat]
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