Brodner's Cartoon du Jour: War Is Over
June 26, 2008
Or so it would seem by the coverage we have been getting on the corporate media. "Since the start of last year, the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a part of the nonprofit Pew Research Center, has tracked reporting by several dozen major newspapers, cable stations, broadcast television networks, Web sites and radio programs. Iraq accounted for 18 percent of their prominent news coverage in the first nine months of 2007, but only 9 percent in the following three months, and 3 percent so far this year."
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Meanwhile the dying goes on, as in this horrifying scene from a few days ago, in which a suicide bomb disrupted an Iraqi Council meeting in Sadr City where the US soldiers acted as unwitting human shields. This man, Qasim al-Sudani, was injured but probably saved by the four Americans, one Italian, and six Iraqis who were not. One was a State Department worker, the fourth to die in Iraq. In Mosul, a policeman and a child were killed. In southern Baghdad the chairman of the local council was shot down with nine bullets in his chest as he opened his door.
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If one listens to critics of Israel, we hear two things:
a) That their problems with terrorism are the proximate result of decades long desperate conditions for the Arabs. Even Jimmy Carter alludes that while he does not approve of suicide bombing, he can still explain it in ways which average people could relate.
b) That (naturally) the terrorism in Iraq is also the fault of the Jewish State, as they are accused of puppeteering the American people and their electorate.
What is not explained is how the Iraqi Arabs became so ‘desperate’ that they had no choice but to resort to blowing-up their own women and children in farmer’s markets.
Which is why this is NOT a “war” at all. Wars are for military conquest. Since there is nothing to be “won” in Iraq, it can’t be a “war”. It is better described as a “military police action”. Has it been mishandled? Probably grossly so. But if the proverbial “doctor” mistreats the stroke ‘patient’, that does not make the doctor responsible for the ‘stroke’ itself, only for not helping to cure it properly.
The affliction in Iraq is in point-of-fact quite similar to the affliction in Palestine. Both are the result of propagandic distorting of reality. Such is not automatically cured by more media attention. It is to be cured by the accurate and logical understanding of the conflict, including a true chronicle of history and also important, stopping the fanatical religious mind-control, especially of minors.
I repeat:
What is not explained is how the Iraqi Arabs became so ‘desperate’ that they had no choice but to resort to blowing-up their own women and children in farmer’s markets.
Really, thats the core of any news which Mr. Brodner has claimed as missing. Everyone knows the "insurgency" continues. We need not be reminded every hour on the hour.
I don't be surprized if this military action seems to improve between now and Nov., in the run-up before the US election. But what is the point of showing dead and wounded service-men and women on TV each day, when the news media is afraid to address the core question?
A- Radical Islam has set the stage for the crisis all over the Mid East. Not Israel and Not the USA. We just don't have any intelligent solutions.