I was listening to the Sirota show on the radio yesterday morning, sort of – it was on in the background. I think that David was trying to contextualize the possibility that there is a Pakistani link to the alleged Times Square bombing attempt. He mentioned the fact that the U.S. runs routinely drones into Pakistan and kills civilians (having a special affinity for wedding parties, I might add).
A caller reminded him that both Bush and Obama have been president during the time that the military has been attacking Pakistan with drones.
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Footnote: This may seem a bit cryptic to those who frame the world through the lens of two parties, and I was in a rush yesterday. But the state of mind of the caller was this: The possibilities for action, good on one side, bad on the other, are expressed in the minds of most Americans as “Democrat” or “Republican.” Therefore, when something is done that appears antisocial, even evil, as killing innocent civilians in Pakistan via drones, the fact that the same deed is done when the government is nominally headed by either allowed party at different times means that the act is morally neutral.
It’s contrived thinking, moral wrestling and freakish logic, but given the narrow parameters of acceptable thought here in the land of the free, represents the only logical conclusion most can arrive at. It’s cognitive dissonance, impaired reasoning, and thought control.
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Pakistan is the “P” in the TAPI (Trans-Afghan-Pakistan-India) pipeline project. It’s a $ multi-billion project, crazy really, that needs our troops, and NATO’s too, to defend against threats to its construction, operation and maintenance, and profitability. The U.S. is the great protector of speculative oil investments worldwide.
I’m sure the Chinese will thank us one day for securing all that Iraqi oil, which they now own majority rights to. “Domestic” politics is no more than bread and circus entertainment to keep the idiot masses busy. Didn’t work so well in Greece or Thailand, but here in the U.S. we have tv and drugs to buffer our thoughts. There are no parties, no countries, no laws left that BP and Exxon cannot step around or through.
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