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Obama the Peace-BringerObama has brought peace to the world. At least according to the media. They don't say that, exactly. But note how their coverage has shifted. Under Bush, we were not only fighting two wars, we were losing them both, supposedly. The coverage drove home the notion that we were a nation at war. And losing. And now? By not mentioning the two wars we're in, the media gives the impression that we are in fact no longer at war at all. The deadliest string of bombings in a year in Iraq gets a short mention, but no prominent play, and certainly no questioning about whether Obama's strateries are helping or hurting. Twin suicide bombers struck outside the gates of the holiest Shiite site in Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 60 people and wounding scores more, according to preliminary reports from police officials. It should be noted, of course, that the media lost interest in Iraq as The Surge won that war, for all intents and purposes, and that curious loss of interest occurred when Bush was President. But even as the media refused to report on the success in Iraq, they would rouse themselves to push stories about bombings in Iraq. And of course the less they covered Iraq, the more they covered Afghanistan, which they assured us was all but lost. Because, of course, Bush had "taken his eye off the ball." Did we suddenly win in Afghanistan? Is there some reason the media is no longer warning us about the imminent threat of the Taliban winning? Odd, seems to me that the real risk is no longer the Taliban winning in Afghanistan, but winning in nuclear-armed Pakistan: A resurgent Taliban in Pakistan's northwestern Swat valley on Monday vowed to enforce Islamic laws across the country while ruling out Supposedly the US has a plan to "enter" (whether by invitation or by invasion) Pakistan to capture the nukes should Al Qaeda and the Taliban take over, but I doubt the leftist Obama would approve of such a thing. And further, I don't know if it's even achievable. Pakistan has 170 million people, after all. And yet, looking at the stories pushed by the media, it seems to me that our only current concerns are economic and domestic. Somehow, by the simple act of becoming president, Obama ended two wars, apparently in full victory. It's not as if there are no mentions of war in the media. But when Bush was president, the war dominated the coverage. War was omnipresent. Even if you wanted to tune out, the media wouldn't let you. Every week brought some new horror, a horror that actually occurred or one that was likely coming just around the bend. And now? Unless you look for the coverage, you don't find it. The media is quite willing to allow you to believe we're at peace now, if that's your inclination. Obviously the vast majority of Americans are not first-hand witnesses in either theater and rely upon the media to inform them of what's happening there. But the media has decided to opt out of that responsibility, because informing the public would require them to ask difficult questions of Teleprompter Jesus, questions he might not know the answers to. It's just easier, all around, to follow "No Drama Obama's" lead and pretend that we're not in the middle of two shooting wars, with Pakistan possibly on the brink of full and complete Talibanization. If the worst happens, I'm sure the media will cover it. After the fact. And they'll ask lots of difficult questions of President Prissypants, like "How do you feel about the unfairness of President Bush leaving you in a no-win situation?" But for now -- don't worry, be happy. The world is at peace, at least until it's not, and you can praise Obama for that.
Funny, I seem to remember it having been a moral imperative, which only True Patriots (TM) undertook, to criticize Bush relentlessly for making this country more unsafe. And now? "Not very patriotic." He was on Olbermann, of course. Note how Alter has to walk back the unhinged Olbermann from suggesting Dick Cheney actively desires a new 9/11. [Nope: Ed tells me that's not fair, that Olby was trying to clean up Alter's loose language. And, reading it again, I agree.] ALTER: Because what he is betting on – and this is the sick thing to me, Keith – is that if there’s another attack that he will then be back as a huge and important figure who predicted that this would happen if we stopped torturing. And this is his bid for historical resurrection. Hmmm... positioning himself to say "I told you so." What a novel idea. Strange it hasn't been tried over the course of the last eight fucking years. Thanks to AHFF Geoff and JackStraw.
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