Post by shin on Jun 1, 2006 15:19:00 GMT -5
Not one post about the freshly painted schools, Chrisfan? I'm extremely disappointed. You're taking the liberal media's bait.
But anyway, I wonder how many incidents like this (not massacres per se, just stuff like Abu Ghraib, killed journalists and soldier IED deaths) are going to have to happen, and for how long, until the collective narrative of both the average person AND the media really reaches an agreed level where even the fierce shrieks of right wing noise machine and the black-is-white proclimations of this administration combined couldn't drown them out. I think the general population is well ahead of the media in terms of understand just how much of a total clusterfuck this is, how this administration has lied and how badly a serious criminal investigation of the pre-war intelligence manipulation is needed, but the media is slow to investigate this sort of thing; it doesn't really fit the established narrative. And until that happens, the true political pressure won't be there to incite real change.
I fear that something massive, like a huge strike on a large cluster of troops like with Beirut, is what it's going to take for everyone, EVERYONE, to finally agree that this has been long lost and we need to either get out totally or get COMPLETELY fucking serious, not this "we've turned a corner" bullshit. And by then, it will be long too late.
But anyway, I wonder how many incidents like this (not massacres per se, just stuff like Abu Ghraib, killed journalists and soldier IED deaths) are going to have to happen, and for how long, until the collective narrative of both the average person AND the media really reaches an agreed level where even the fierce shrieks of right wing noise machine and the black-is-white proclimations of this administration combined couldn't drown them out. I think the general population is well ahead of the media in terms of understand just how much of a total clusterfuck this is, how this administration has lied and how badly a serious criminal investigation of the pre-war intelligence manipulation is needed, but the media is slow to investigate this sort of thing; it doesn't really fit the established narrative. And until that happens, the true political pressure won't be there to incite real change.
I fear that something massive, like a huge strike on a large cluster of troops like with Beirut, is what it's going to take for everyone, EVERYONE, to finally agree that this has been long lost and we need to either get out totally or get COMPLETELY fucking serious, not this "we've turned a corner" bullshit. And by then, it will be long too late.
