The subtle difference between Vietnam and Afghanistan?
The honesty of the media filming the carnage of war and bringing it to the living rooms of every American family on a daily basis. Almost to the point they could smell it. Giving them a minuscule glimpse of the realities of war that our soldiers face daily.
Sort of a televised Natnl post traumatic shock disorder bringing an end to war, precisely because it no longer had anywhere near a majority of support of the American people.
Media, doing its proper job by depicting the truth, and letting the people decide.
It really is that simple, unless your media too is corrupt?
It's becoming progressively harder for corrupt organizations of every stripe to maintain their fictions in the Internet age.
The only bright spot in the whole almost Shakespearean tragedy!
Same thing that the media ignores in Afghanistan, Vietnam etc, drugs and their money laundering bankers.
50K killed just across our border in Mexican drug cartel wars, and we build billion dollar embassies in Iraq, while giving billions in aid(bribery/extortion) to Pakistan and Afghanistan?
Actually had the American public known the true extent of corruption in the white house during the Nixon administration, to the extent we do now?
It would be an excellent indicator of how the very worst suspicions our country has about its own govt's motives and rationale can often be very accurate, when viewed historically.
Meaning our current govt may have far more to hide than Nixon's ever did.
When our leaders cringe at the thought of truth and transparency becoming publicly known and accessible to them in real time?
That's the danger the Internet poses to every govt that lies to its people in public while speaking truth only in secret.
I heard Jay Rockefeller talking after one of the elections like 2 years ago about how the internet needed to be regulated. My first thought was that he must be fearing the public may find out something on him that he doesn't want them know.
jomoco , did you quit taking your meds again ?? man it was quiet for a little bit !!! here we go again ....
bicker away ... bicker away .. i will actually be doing something while you are bickering !!!!!!!!!!!
Kudos to al jazeera, the guardian and mother jones!
The likelihood that the Colorado theatre shooter was on antipsychotic SSRI's is very high. Only big pharma has enough clout to suppress that news getting out by filling him up on even more meds upon his arrest,