I am skeptical of government pronouncements regarding things that they want us to fear, and unlike most, do not distinguish between Republican fear-mongering and Democratic fear-mongering. So I listened to Obama’s announcement of how they found a bomb in Dubai* and how it was headed for a synagogue, and I gave it the same credibility that such a pronouncement from George W. Bush would have merited. It’s probably a lie.
But assume that people working in counter-terrorism (their name for their work) are honest, as most surely are. Does that mean that the underlying event was real?
Not necessarily. Such incidents are easily generated, and can be real or fake, or better yet, manufactured. (Even shoe and underpants bombs can be manufactured events.) All is possible, but this is the U.S., so the event is automatically treated as real and credible. Shame on you, people! Shame on you!
The timing here is suspicious we well, the Friday before a national election. Bush did this on a regular basis.
Anyway, it was like an out-of-body experience for me as I listened to the news and Obama’s words on this matter. I was concentrating, and so not aware of myself, but standing before a mirror doing my morning stuff, looked at the mirror and saw myself smiling.
And then I laughed out loud. New president, different party, same old shit. Nothing has changed.
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*Worth noting here that the Obama Administration has given hints that it wants to attack Yemen, supposedly the source of the bombs found in Dubai. Is this casus belli?
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