It seems both the New York Times and Dave Winer of Scripting News have not listened to Dick Cheney lately, like in the past year or so. He wasn't alone in the opinion that too many people are still in a pre-9/11 mindset, and that wasn't the first time he has made exactly the same point. That phenomena is pretty much common knowledge among conservatives and has been for years. The fact that Cheney said it again a couple days ago, while true, stands on its own without the NYT attaching some connection to that and the London Plot. But when you either aren't paying attention or just don't know what you're talking about, I can see how one can be so surprised as would a 'punch in the gut.'
Says the New York Times:
'It comes like a punch to the gut, at times like these, when our leaders blatantly use the nation’s trauma for political gain.'
There was nothing blatant about it. And if truth causes political gain, it's far better than lying to get political gain. But there's still no connection of the 9/11 comment to the London Plot. It's only political gain because of their belief system. If they could see the light and be on the same page in this war with Bush, then they too would be on the right side. Wouldn't that make them feel great?
One can hardly believe that the New York Times is physically in New York City when they think terrorists are just terrorists because they're really angry. The WTC attack wasn't anger, it was war. The New York Times are among those who still don't get it. These Islamofascists only want us dead, they don't care how angry they might appear. In the second paragraph, emphasis added, the New York Times boils the war-on-terror down to frustration. Over what? Frustration born of being stuck on stupid in the twelfth century maybe:
There is nothing Americans want more than to win the war on terror, to come to a place where people no longer feel it is a fine thing to forfeit their own lives and the lives of innocents in order to make the world notice their anger and frustration.
And Dave asks:
Also note yesterday's news was completely managed by the US and British governments. How much faith do you have in their honesty? Why?
Do I have faith in our government? Compared to what, the New York Times? ROFL Seems reasonable to me that the media would have felt 'managed' yesterday. They had no advance leak to trump them on. In that respect, yesterday was also a defeat for the New York Times. Besides, who else beside the principles would know what the hell is going on? There are no press 'embeds' in the secret services. Nor should there be.
Faith in government just doesn't compute. We are the government. We elect people we know to take care of the paperwork (the government) for us. And I'm not predisposed to accept the notion that our government is inherently dishonest. Likewise, I don't expect them to share their secrets or open 'war strategy' to public debate. Both ridiculous expectations.
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