Posted on 5/1/2003, 4:29:43 AM by 11B3
Press Puppets Jonathan Rhodes efreedomnews.com 27 April 2003 Here in America, they deify "reporters" who ask the tough questions - get in the face of government officials and fundamentalist (Christian) religious leaders, insist on representation and the rights of minorities, debate the status quo. Yet they are conspicuously unable to bring these talents to bear on the rest of the world. Pandering to the leftist elitist movement, this smacks of racism. If they will not hold Arab peoples to the same standard of humanitarianism then the press is either a propaganda tool or racist, unable to hold the Arab world to the same standards they so solemnly demand of western leaders. Once these elitist torchbearers go abroad, they lose all context and become puppets of foreign propaganda machines. Where are these incisive questions asked?
When Tariq Aziz visited the Vatican and had a private audience with the pope, this former Iraqi Foreign Minister who championed hanging Jews in Baghdad while he ran an Iraqi newspaper refused to take questions from an Israeli reporter. The reporter respectfully asked Aziz about Iraq's ability to reach Israel with missiles and even thanked the minister for listening to the question. Aziz said he would answer no questions from members of "the Israeli media." There were boos from the assembled members of the press - but that was it! The press conference went on and the matter dropped. Unbelievable. Does not one member of the Headline Hunters have a basic knowledge of world history? During World War II, Pope, Pius XII used the Vatican Bank to fund escape routes for Nazi war criminals and reestablish former Nazis in South America. This is documented in a San Francisco federal court lawsuit filed by Holocaust survivors and their heirs against the Vatican Bank and Franciscan Order. Declassified CIA documents in the hands of the plaintiffs and their expert witness, John Loftus (Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, The Nazis, and The Swiss Banks, St Martin's Press 1997), verify that top Croatian Nazis were billeted in Vatican safe houses after the war including major war criminals. Finally - faced with the outright murder of 3,000 civilians on September 11, 2001, the United States responded with the greatest military achievement since the Battle of Cunaxa, or Alexander the Great's destruction of the Achaemenid Empire. Totally surprised and unprepared, the US took on an enemy 6,000 miles away in Afghanistan, having no reliable local allies, no ports or usable airspace, no support among the Islamic world. Our only allies on the ground held less than 10% of the country after years of fighting. The Taliban ruled the remainder of the country with a naked iron hand, having no need for the velvet glove of modern civilization. The terrain was markedly inhospitable. The Russians and British told us only of their years of struggle resulting in ultimate defeat in their military excursions in Afghanistan. We were told fighting during the holy month of Ramadan would result in a firestorm of American hatred across the Arab world bringing more terrorism to our shores if not starting a mass war across the middle east. Yet, in less than 2 months the US destroyed the Taliban, freed the joyous Afghans from their fundamentalist persecutors, and then installed the beginnings of a civil society and government. No middle eastern war resulted. Demonstrations in Arab nations petered out. Critics of the expedition crept into the shadows lest their shrill, disproved commentary be remembered. Then on to Iraq - again the same rhetoric of defeat reigned from the talking heads at network news desks. The New York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times took editorial positions against a military solution to the Hussein regime and published only negatively skewed "news" reports until the obvious victory was too much to ignore.
History will record the US victory in Iraq as unprecedented in military history. Never has an army moved so far, so fast, maintained supply lines rather than plunder the countryside by living off the field, suffered so few casualties, so minimized civilian casualties, and then so professionally claimed their victory without plundering the riches of the vanquished, instead moving immediately to establish self-governance for the Iraqi people. This campaign will become a pinnacle of military achievement, studied in war colleges across the globe through the ages. Yet what do we get for "news?" THE DIXIE CHICKS ARE NUDE! |
This is also a fitting article for the likes of Justin Raimondo et al. You know who you are out there.
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