Not at all. Perhaps after a good nights sleep, we will all shake off the pessimism, and try once again to warn... before the tipping point where any warning becomes a moot point. Or else the military will gently chide us pessimists with, "Ahhh, you guys overestimated how much the frenchmen in Washington could inhibit us from doing our jobs."
All I want for Christmas... is for that to be true. Have a good holiday season, guy.
I hope our fine folks in uniform can some day chide us for being pessimistic, and the more people who are reminded of what the MSM and the 'pundits' in Washington and elsewhere are up to, the better.
I have been acutely aware of how scrolling banners, lead in stories and comments, even question phraseology have been used to frame the debate and effectively keep the seminal issues from being discused while placing other parties on the defensive from the start. It is a slick propaganda technique especially suited to what passes for news in the sound byte/video clip era.
Back in the early '70s, a roomate in college who was taking communication arts showed me how camera angles could be used to change a person's perception of the size of a crowd, and since then I have always been watching for the gimmick. It is almost always there, in this day and age, whether verbal, a trick of lighting, camera angle, or so simple as the quality of the make-up (what helped Kennedy beat Nixon).
Thanks again.