Desired by the dominant parts of the PermaGov, anyway.

Racheting up in any and every way possible the fear factor of the American population so that the war in and on the Islamic nations continues.

Now...as far as I am concerned the fear regarding large segments of Islam...the so-called "fundamentalist" parts, which are about as fundamentalist as are the right wing-American militias that promote war in the name of The Prince Of Peace... as a powerful anti-Western force is perfectly rational. I have seen it with my own eyes and felt it in my own heart while in North Africa fairly recently. The west has fucked up big time regarding almost every non-European civilization in the world over the past 500 years or so, and lotsa them cullud people got weapons and economic power now. What the fuck else would one expect?

What is insane is the idea that we can control this hatred through military means. Have we learned nothing from 40 years of failure in this regard?

The same fools who are promoting the Homeland Security agenda of paranoia and hatred had  learned by the time that they were in third grade about how the American Revolution was won by al Queda/Taliban-like fighters against a bloated and inefficient empire.

But they really learned nothing, because here they are, running the same game only with more dangerous weapons.

Weapons of mass destruction are just one slip-up away from being used, and the even more dangerous WMDs...weapons of mass deception...are being used at home on a level that makes any other propaganda machine ever invented by man look like child's play.

And here a so-called left-wing blog's owner gives props to an arm of that propaganda machine that is about .005 degrees to the left of dead center because that's as far as his own understanding of how things are working here travels.

Fucking incredible.

"ABC News is a reputable source most of the time" my royal Irish ass!!!

Nightline (for instance) has been a "left wing of the right wing" propaganda juggernaut for well over a decade.

ABC slants towards Obama?

Then...beware Obama.

Watch.

They are simply fanning the flames of paranoia in an effort to force the people of this country to back further war in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Middle East in general.

Watch.

I do not know...nor particularly care...whether this Nadal guy is some sort on Manchurian candidate sleeper (from either side...or both sides simultaneously... of the fence), simply a weak-minded loser (a description that could be accurately applied to almost the whole of the U.S. military today) whose ethnicity drove him to kill Americans rather than third-world people as is the case with most of the rest of our armies or a homicidal time bomb in shrink's fatigues just waiting to go postal for any reason whatsoever.

No matter.

Like political debates, presidential speeches, natural disasters or any other occurrence...the real deal is whatever spin is put upon it by the media.

Had the same New Orleans hurricane tragedy and the same set of lame responses been reported upon favorably by the media..."Brave U.S. First Responders Fail Gallantly Against An Overwhelming Act Of God. President Bush Cries In Anguish!!!" Katrina would have been a plus for the RatPubs, not a felling blow. But they had so fucked up already in both the war and in the financial sector that the PermaGov wanted to get rid of them. Bush could have levitated right out of Air Force One and stopped that hurricane in its tracks and the headlines would have screamed "Satanic Forces At Work In Our White House!!!"

Bet on it.

It's all a con game now.

And a con game is something upon which one should not bet.

Suspension of disbelief in matter of this sort is life-threatening.

Remember...it's  all a con.

The only real possible answer?

NEWSTRIKE!!!

MEDIASTRIKE!!!

CULTURESTRIKE!!!

VAYA!!!

But NOOOOoooooooo....

It's "ABC News is a reputable source most of the time" all of the time.

Wake the fuck UP!!!

You been had.

Again.

AG

Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.-Mae West