Friend or Foe? What day of the week is it?

13 February 2007

Determining who our friends are and who they are not is becoming more and more difficult. It really is almost a day-by-day roster of who wants what from us. If someone wants something from us, money, aid, influence, weapons, protection, defense then they do their best to kiss our ass. But if they are not getting anything or what they want from us then heaven help us in their media. It is amazing how the world wants us to become just and honorable and fair when they are not getting what they want. World leaders and international media rip our country and our policies to shreds and then turn around in the same breath and kiss our ass looking for a hand out or bale out. God, love their honor and justice!!

It is hard to believe that in the last 30 years, there were very clear sides with the Cold War in full swing. The Iron Curtain divided Europe. South America, Africa and Asia were up for grabs. And the grabbing went on and on and the Super Powers were played by warlords and tribal chiefs that could barely read and write if at all. Now in the 21^st century we have the mess of our making but only one super power cleaning it up.

But what will the future hold? Putin has his ambition in full swing and high gear, he sees his time for making his moves and we have given him the room and the backing to do it.

Looking closely at the internal politics of Russia you can see the old order rising out of the dust like the phoenix out of the ashes. Putin blocks our moves every chance he gets; however, he has been careful not to slap us fully in the face. And here we are war weary, tired and ready to go back to being self-indulged and instantly gratified. We are right were Putin and the world wants us and our own media has made it easy for them to get us here.

Our own media slams our administration every chance that it gets, they pump out a liberal agenda that screams socialism and even feigns on communism, failing to realize or admit that if either of those schools of thought took over here in this country their own freedom to slam the government would cease to exist.  Maybe we should start a new program, since the academic institutions seem to have such a love affair with socialism and communism, I propose that all senior year journalism students should have to intern in a communist society. They should have to live, eat and breathe journalism in a communist country. They should be required to sign a wavier that if anything happens to them in that year, they are on their own, if they become imprisoned, executed, assassinated or if they just disappear it is just life. Wonder if that would impress upon any of them the true value of freedom of press?

The media especially has become so yellow that they have forgotten that with freedoms does come a certain amount of responsibility. They seem less inclined to verify the accuracy of charges against people if what they have supports their agenda. And no longer is the media's agenda one of informing the public of the facts of the events that have impact on their readers and the world around them. No the media's agenda is that of forming opinions and creating thought patterns that promote the climate and social conditions to create the atmosphere that they desire.

This lack of concern for their responsibility to the public and our society has made them the perfect bedfellows for our enemies. Terrorists have learned to wage war in the media when they cannot win it on the ground. Our fair-weather allies have learned to use the media to their advantage also. Both know that our MSM will promote to our public that America is an evil empire that attacks countries for oil, and ignores the requests of the civilized world to keep our 'war mongering' troops in check. And where are the reports about the atrocities committed by the insurgents or the taliban, they are far and few between? Where are the stories in the media about the real reasons that our 'allies' wanted us to show restraint with Iraq and now with Iran? Where are the sound bites by Putin that show his intentional isolation form the west?

Well, I can help the media out with that one, Putin has been quoting Czar Alexander III; the quote is, Russia has only two allies -- the army and the navy. This is something of notice to Russia's own citizen,, but not to MSM here. The state run media in Russia is creating the condition for a self-imposed isolation and also creating an image of the enemy. The common people of Russia are again being conditioned to believe that it is them against the world.

We can't afford to fight GWOT and another Cold War at the same time, and Russia cannot control the terrorists, nor can she defeat the terrorists. It is my opinion that Russia is sitting back and hoping that the GWOT will so strain our resources and military that in the near future they will be able to step in and gain control and influence on a wider scale than they ever imagined under Stalin. I don't think that they have the capacity to understand the mentality of the enemy nor do they have the ability to influence the actions of their own bedfellows that will have to arise for them to have what they are yearning for.

We must step up and complete our missions in Iraq and A'stan, we must accomplish some form of lasting stability so that we can reassess our footprint and take a clear and unbiased view of the world as a whole to insure our security and the security of our interests abroad. And we must do this before Putin and his Russia make their move!