More Smoke and Mirrors
P. Schultz
May 17, 2013
As
I perused the newspapers on line, viewing the articles about the “scandals”
that are, allegedly, threatening to bring Obama down, even to the point of an
impeachment, I wondered: “What the heck is going on? That is, what the heck is
really going on?’
“Scandals”
are, I have decided, a really neat way for politicians to control “the story
line,” as is said so often these days. That’s one reason politicians really
don’t mind them. It is also a way to preserve the status quo because, while the
“scandals” are alive, it is impossible to pay much attention to more important
issues the resolution of which might require changes of a more than superficial
character.
Then
I turned to the Guardian and found that the Obama administration has just said
that the “global war on terror” will last another ten years and, perhaps,
another twenty years.
“That the Obama administration is now
repeatedly declaring that the "war on terror" will last at least another decade (or two) is vastly more
significant than all three of this week's big media controversies (Benghazi,
IRS, and AP/DOJ) combined.”
So, there
it is: A story line that gets buried in the debris of Benghazi, the IRS, and
the Department of Justice attack on the press; a story line that all the
establishment politicians would agree on, even those allegedly “small
government” types in the Republican Party; a story line that affects and will
affect our politics and society into the foreseeable future.
Does anyone
else see shades of 1984 in this?
Endless war, never voted on, never debated, just announced while being
overshadowed by those “scandals” that are going to bring down an administration
– that is, until the next “terrorist” attack occurs and we are urged to be strong!
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