Before it was the Sunni insurgency that was such an important reason to keep U.S. troops in Iraq? Hard to even remember about that. If not in the daily sound bites and headlines, it must no longer be. One remembers only that the 'surge' is working and some Sunnis are fighting al Qaida. If the ‘surge’ is working, they will have to find another reason to stay. They always do.
Somehow it is time to attack Sadr Shiites who had some years ago rebelled and fought to force the U.S. to have an election Chief Administrator Paul Bremer wanted to postpone indefinitely.
Sorry, can we just accept that the plan is for the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and Somalia to be permanent because of the perceived need of the military industrial complex led corporate governance of the U.S. to garrison the Middle East oil fields into the foreseeable future - that for some reason, merely having a military powerhouse Israel in the oil neighborhood is not sufficient.
Money, money, money. America owns half the world, and is living it up on credit desperately trying to avoid consumer spending being down, personal depression and over-eating while partying, so to speak, on the graves of millions who got in harms way of America's military in many small third world countries. And the U.S. military's enemies are always changing, if one keeps track.
Americans just don't see themselves as indifferent to civilian lives taken by their ground troops, tanks and air strikes daily in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and now add Pakistan, and of course wherever America's enemies try to hide. They just see themselves as too busy with their own lives, and worried about the health of their soldiers occupying foreign lands to go beyond the satisfaction of reading the almost daily body counts of suspected insurgents fighting U.S. occupation forces.
Conglomerate commercial TV and newspapers teaches Americans to be concerned with the consumer spending index, the price of gas, baseball, basketball, football, soccer and hockey scores and favorite stars of sports, TV, music videos and Hollywood - as it does practically everywhere else in the world where satellite communications make its presence and message seen and heard. Distraction and diversion is a normal need for hard working people. Mixed in with the entertainment, trust commercial mass media to keep the public informed on what the Pentagon would like it to know about who it is fighting this week.
But only American citizens have responsibility and accountability for what the most powerful armed forces in the history of the world is doing along with the covert violence sponsored by the secret CIA agency under the command of America's president.
Add in the recent American public acceptance of torture, loss of habeus corpus, right to privacy and national honor in Vietnam and now Iraq, and one gets a picture of what others around the world think of today's Americans - white Americans, that is, for the outside world excuses the discriminated against racial minorities and the immigrants who came fleeing the impoverished half of the planet under the forced New World Order of Pax Americana.
Look at how much Americans feel for abused Tibetans! If the media would highlight similar human interest stories about the millions abused by the having their own lands devastated by American military occupying and warring forces, they would not continue their cruel indifference to non-American lives taken 'collaterally' for the brutal goals of U.S. foreign policy. But this is not something the conglomerate owned media is expected to show, it being beholden to promote all wars in one way or another - media CEOs and board members in lock step with the boards and CEOs of corporations profiting from war.
Ask that the nations air frequencies be taken away from war promoting corporations.
