[Peace-discuss] Greenwald: Those Irrational, Misled, Conspiratorial Muslims

[C. G. Estabrook]

This seems to be Super Propaganda Week over at the Times, when the usual day-in 
day-out preaching of the Official Word gives way to New Revelations of the 
Depravity of the Enemy, against which only Obama and Petraeus stand like the 
Spartans at the Hot Gates (not the SecDef ) - and need an extra $33.5B to do it.

Greenwald's article is devastating to the propaganda structure, but he might 
have added that in US planning for the Long War - the domination of energy 
resources in SW Asia - Pakistan has particular importance.  With 2/3 the 
population of the US and a larger army, Pakistan could be a major road block to 
US control of the region if it should decide to oppose it actively.  That's why 
the US is so concerned to "protect" Pakistan - whether Pakistanis like it or not.

In fact, they don't: more than 80% of Pakistanis see the US as the greatest 
danger to their country, and they are undoubtedly right.  The US will do 
anything - anything - to prevent effective opposition from Pakistan to US 
control of Mideast energy resources.

On 5/26/10 10:49 AM, David Green wrote:
> http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/05/26-7
>
> "The New York Times this morning has a particularly lush installment of one
> of the American media's most favored, reliable, and self-affirming rituals --
> it's time to mock and pity Those Crazy, Primitive, Irrational, Propagandized
> Muslims and their Wild Conspiracy Theories, which their reckless media and
> extremists maliciously disseminate in order to generate unfair and unfounded
> hostility toward the U.S..."

> <http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?src=twt&twt=nytimes>

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