03/16/05

Over 1,500 American soldiers killed in Iraq, and over 20,000 wounded -- in many cases, horribly wounded -- not to speak of over 100,000 dead Iraqis, most of them innocent civilians. Our government is involved in a long-term campaign to convince us that this is all worth it. Because if our foreign policy continues along the same path -- intervention everywhere, in the same of an explicitly imperial policy of preemption -- there are going to be a lot more casualties by the time we're through. If we are ever through, that is. And so alongside the gritty reality of mass murder and senseless destuction, the War Party has to construct a counternarrative, in effect an alternate reality of 'good news' from the front, which is invisible to those of us who live in the 'reality-based community,' but clear as day to those ideologues of global Democracy -- who don't even blink at the prospect of so many human sacrifices on the altar of the war god. This is the key role played by the media – which once boasted of its duty to tell the 'truth...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=5187

from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp