BengalsCat Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 [url="http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453389.0680555557.html"]Read THis[/url] Read this please.. Esp if you are lib.. its not a knock on anyone its just how things go down and that how so many things are sqewed that are presented to you as fact by the media... w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Now, compare the Najaf example to the coverage and debate ad nauseam of the Abu Ghuraib Prison affair. There certainly is no justification for what a dozen or so soldiers did there, but unbalanced reporting led the world to believe that the actions of the dozen were representative of the entire military. This has had an incredibly negative effect on Middle Easterners' already sagging opinion of the U.S. and its military. Did anyone show the world images of the 200 who were beheaded and mutilated in Muqtada's Shari'a Law court, or spend the next six months talking about how horrible all of that was? No, of course not. Most people don't know that these atrocities even happened. It's little wonder that many people here want us out and would vote someone like Muqtada Al Sadr into office given the chance  they never see the whole truth. Strange, when the enemy is the instigator the media does not flash images across the screens of televisions in the Middle East as they did with Abu Ghuraib. Is it because the beheaded bodies might offend someone? If so, then why do we continue see photos of the naked human pyramid over and over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Also bothersome are references by "experts" on how "long" this war is taking. I've read that in the world of manufacturing, you can have only two of the following three qualities when developing a product  cheap, fast or good. You can produce something cheap and fast, but it won't be good; good and fast, but it won't be cheap; good and cheap, but it won't be fast. In this case, we want the result to be good and we want it at the lowest cost in human lives. Given this set of conditions, one can expect this war is to take a while, and rightfully so. Creating a democracy in Iraq not only will require a change in the political system, but the economic system as well. Study of examples of similar socio-economic changes that took place in countries like Chile, Bulgaria, Serbia, Russia and other countries with oppressive Socialist dictatorships shows that it took seven to ten years to move those countries to where they are now. There are many lessons to be learned from these transfomations, the most important of which is that change doesn't come easily, even without an insurgency going on. Maybe the experts should take a look at all of the work that has gone into stabilizing Bosnia-Herzegovina over the last 10 years. We are just at the eighteen-month mark in Iraq, a place far more oppressive than Bosnia ever was. If previous examples are any comparison, there will be no quick solutions here, but that should be no surprise to an analyst who has done his or her homework. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Ironically, the press freedom that we have brought to this part of the world is providing support for the enemy we fight. I obviously think it's a disgrace when many on whom the world relies for news paint such an incomplete picture of what actually has happened. Much too much is ignored or omitted. I am confident that history will prove our cause right in this war, but by the time that happens, the world might be so steeped in the gloom of ignorance we won't recognize victory when we achieve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Good Article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Its not a good sign when your carying on a conversation with yourself cat.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengalrick Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 [quote name='Ben' date='Jan 18 2005, 04:26 PM']Its not a good sign when your carying on a conversation with yourself cat.... [right][post="36707"][/post][/right][/quote] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//24.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//20.gif[/img] [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//24.gif[/img] great article though cat... [img]http://forum.go-bengals.com/public/style_emoticons//24.gif[/img] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bengalrick Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 [quote]Bloody Week on U.S. Highways: Some 700 Killed[/quote] [quote]More Than 900 Americans Die Weekly from Obesity-Related Diseases[/quote] he had great points w/ these articles... they don't lead w/ those kinds of articles for an obvious reason... why isn't it obvious in this case? fallujah seemed like it was a blood bath for us, but we only focused on the deaths... i can see that in most cases, but not when we smoked 1500 terrorists... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted January 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 Yeah i thought it was a good read because i watch alot of news and i am finaly figuring out even what they tell me might be fuckin wrong.. ahh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Bunghole| Posted January 19, 2005 Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 That is an excellent article and very important. For some time I've been conversating with my father, who is a retired 2-star general (served 36 years, retired in 1999) about this very problem. The most important line from that article to remember is "If it bleeds, it leads" Dad sends me floods of emails with information from people he knows that are either in Iraq or were there recently, and everything is mostly positive. Nobody wants to report slow, gradual progress, or renovations of schools, or building of infrastructure (power stations, water treatment plants, oil pipelines/rigs, etc etc), or any of that shit. The media distortion of this war is sickening, and like the article states, plays right into the hands of the enemy. Some people just don't have a clue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BengalsCat Posted January 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2005 UR dad is a general?? didnt know that thats pretty wicked... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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