Here is the definition of Occupation:
The holding and control of an area by a foreign military force. or
The military force occupying a country or the policies carried out by it.
Here is the definition of War:
A declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations.
We are not in a war anymore Miami Herald. Use your words correctly. (And, while you are at it, will you stop calling speed boats go-fast boats. What are we in kindergarten?)
To digress: I am by no means able to talk about the occupation in Iraq with any intelligence but I do find “The Curse of Lawrence of Arabia” concept pretty interesting. I am skipping a lot to get to this point, like the part played by Lawrence of Arabia so you should go read the whole text... But you will find this excerpt below written 11/08/2002 by Jack Wheeler a VERY interesting MUST READ.
THE CURSE OF LAWRENCE OF ARABIA:
“The bottom line to this saga is that Iraq is not a real country - like, say, Persia (Iran) which has existed for 2,500 years. It is an artificial construct and can only be held together by force. Iraq and its people have no history of nor familiarity with democratic institutions. The three former vilayets of which it is composed still have no mutual cohesiveness. Mosul in the north is Kurdish, Basra in the south is Shiite Arab, Baghdad in the middle is Sunni Arab. The Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis all hate each other. It takes a Saddam to hold the place together.
And that's why Saddam has been kept in place and allowed to ignore all those U.N. Resolutions. A disintegrated Iraq could easily mean an independent Kurdistan, which the millions of Kurds in Turkey, Syria and Iran would clamor to join, splitting apart those three countries. It could mean an independent Basra, or just an inchoate anarchy, another Somalia. The fear of these post-Saddam scenarios is what drives much of the international frenzy against GW taking Saddam out.”
6 comments:
you have to understand that the Miami Herald has to sell many copies to exist. In order to do that it must write so that the majority of people understand it. The words used by the Herald are just right for most of their readership.
In regard to Irag the quote was exactly correct and is the reason we could never do anything there but loose young American lives.
Why can't the herald write stories in detail enough to bring the education of the readership up rather than dumb it down to the lowest common denominator? That serves no purpose whatsoever!
Speaking of the Miami Herald has anyone ever seen anything in there about the muti millions the oil companies have screwed the public out of by cheating on their lease payments. The Bush gang has worked very hard to quiet it all up and they have not intention of bothering big oil.
As much as I despise the Miami Herald (and I do agree with Mensa, above, that the readership cannot handle more than a three letter monosyllabic word such as "war"), propaganda coverage of this Iraq mess goes way beyond the Herald. Since Day 1, this entire debacle has been PROMOTED by most major media in terms that would make any PR firm proud. Shock and Awe. The War on Terror... All t-shirt worthy slogans. And much of America is dumb enough to still want to buy the t-shirt.
We can only hope to change our little media outlets here in Miami....you are giving us too big of a nut to crack. Let's make this Herald a better paper. Let that be our goal.
It is up to all of us to not let it off the hook....don't despise the Herald, pressure the Herald.
Considering that most of the stupid and many of the smart readers left the Herald to stem further losses of more smart readers the Herald better improve and quick.
Post a Comment