Peacenik doesn't need any reminders to remind Peacenik that the world is crazy. But this article hits the nail on the head. We live in a world were everyone seems to need someone to hate and fear. And it all plays out to control the sheeple. Boogey men are everywhere. And of course the disgusting main stream media is as sucked into this mindset as anyone.
Just as an exercise, try to imagine a news free environment. Peacenik needs a trip to the wilderness.
By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. Posted June 17, 2009.
American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.
The only people happier than the Iranian elites over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparently stolen election win Friday, were the neoconservatives and other hawks eager to block any efforts by the Obama administration to moderate U.S. policy toward the Islamic republic.
Since he was elected president in 2005, Ahmadinejad has filled a certain niche in the American psyche formerly filled by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi as the Middle Eastern leader we most love to hate. It gives us a sense of righteous superiority to compare ourselves favorably to these seemingly irrational and fanatical foreign despots.
Better yet, if these despots can be inflated into far greater threats than they actually are, these supposed threats can be used to justify the enormous financial and human costs of maintaining American armed forces in that volatile region to protect ourselves and our allies, and even to make war against far-off nations in "self-defense."
Read on...
Just as an exercise, try to imagine a news free environment. Peacenik needs a trip to the wilderness.
By Stephen Zunes, AlterNet. Posted June 17, 2009.
American conservatives and Iranian hard-liners need each other.
The only people happier than the Iranian elites over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's apparently stolen election win Friday, were the neoconservatives and other hawks eager to block any efforts by the Obama administration to moderate U.S. policy toward the Islamic republic.
Since he was elected president in 2005, Ahmadinejad has filled a certain niche in the American psyche formerly filled by the likes of Saddam Hussein and Muammar Qaddafi as the Middle Eastern leader we most love to hate. It gives us a sense of righteous superiority to compare ourselves favorably to these seemingly irrational and fanatical foreign despots.
Better yet, if these despots can be inflated into far greater threats than they actually are, these supposed threats can be used to justify the enormous financial and human costs of maintaining American armed forces in that volatile region to protect ourselves and our allies, and even to make war against far-off nations in "self-defense."
Read on...
