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”The greatest thing to come out of this for the world economy, if you could put it that way, would be $20 a barrel for oil. That’s bigger than any tax cut in any country” (Rupert Murdoch talking about the war,Guardian, February 11, 2003).
“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.” Rudyard Kipling
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that Rupert Murdoch suggested that Israel should join NATO. “How goes Afghanistan, so goes NATO“. And its not going so well for NATO in Afghanistan. As Murdoch correctly pointed out, NATO is not pulling its weight. The combined strength of NATO in Afghanistan is 50,000. The Soviets had more than 150,000 regular troops, plus about 50,000-100,000 irregular troops in Afghanistan. In they end, the had to pull out. Just like the British had to pull out.
“Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.” Thomas Jefferson
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What would the impact be of Israel joining NATO? Most probably Turkey would be under intense pressure to pull out, and NATO would be a target anywhere and everywhere. Europe may not have the stomach to be part of a war with no end.
Israeli forces would be spread thin, weakening its own security. In short it is the repetition of the Peloponnesian war when Athens was spread so thin, that it lost her own democracy first, and then the perpetual war with Sparta led to its denouement (http://rupeenews.com/moins-articles/pakistan-and-america-what-is-not-known-and-what-they-wont-tell-you/python-swallows-alligator-and-then-explodes-2/).
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Rupert Murdoch, head of the world’s largest media empire, has used his influential position to push an ideological agenda closely associated with U.S. neoconservatives. During the lead up to the U.S. invasion of and war in Iraq, the editors of Murdoch’s 175 media holdings vociferously supported President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair’s pro-war campaign. One British newspaper opined: “You have got to admit that Rupert Murdoch is one canny press tycoon because he has an unerring ability to choose editors across the world who think just like him. How else can we explain the extraordinary unity of thought in his newspaper empire about the need to make war on Iraq? After an exhaustive survey of the highest-selling and most influential papers across the world owned by Murdoch’s News Corporation, it is clear that all are singing from the same hymn sheet. Some are bellicose baritone soloists who relish the fight. Some prefer a less strident, if more subtle, role in the chorus. But none, whether fortissimo or pianissimo, has dared to croon the anti-war tune. Their master’s voice has never been questioned” (Guardian, February 17, 2003).
If Murdoch’s outlets have been safe haven for administration antics, companies and corporations may be looking forward to the same treatment: “Rupert Murdoch announced that his latest venture, the Fox Business Channel, would be ‘more business-friendly than CNBC’” (New York Times, February 17, 2007).
Murdoch’s News Corp has holdings in film, television, cable, newspapers, books, magazines, and more. Properties include the New York Post, the National Geographic Channel, HarperCollins Books, and 20th Century Fox. In 2006, Murdoch acquired MySpace, the popular social networking website, as part of Fox Interactive Media. (For more, see NewsCorp.com.)
Two News Corp holdings in particular have provided neoconservatives an influential platform: Fox News and the Weekly Standard. Murdoch’s personal involvement has helped to ensure that almost all of his news organizations “have hewn very closely to Mr. Murdoch’s own stridently hawkish political views, making his voice among the loudest in the Anglophone world in the international debate over the American-led war with Iraq,” as one commentator put it (New York Times, April 7, 2003).
Afghanistan fubar: A crumbling alliance?-Canada and Australia withdrawing? The latest manufactured reports from the war front presents the pictures of “victory”. The press wearing rose colored glasses is presenting this as a success. Many reports have suggested various solutions. Congress has failed miserably to provide oversight on the actions of the administration.
The fawning US media has displayed a bankruptcy of ideas in presenting fresh and unsullied points of view providing a fig-leaf for the 2008 elections. More of the same for more than 24 months provides no new ideas. There is no such thing as a phased withdrawal. As soon as more than 50,000 troops are withdrawn, the remaining demoralized soldiers will be sitting ducks and will have to be evacuated as soon as possible.
“Staying the course” Bush and McCain style will exponentially escalate another wave of anti-Americanism, unleash catastrophic consequences for America and may devolve the entire region into chaos.
The unrelenting Neocon propaganda was unleashed to achieve an agenda, and was surely not based on any reality or truth. Unfortunately, the vampire Neocons are still thirsty for Muslim blood and will continue to come up with justification to continue the Crusades against Syria, Iran, Sudan, Somalia and possibly Pakistan. Unfortunately many in the Middle East and South America see them as the face of our great nation.
Neocons that ignore the writings of President Carter will not be swayed by the writings ofa motley crew put together to justify defeat and carnage.. No progress in Iraq, Afghanistan or Palestine seems likely.British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s favorite General the Lord Guthrie called Britain’s policy in Afghanistan as “cuckoo”. Tom Koenigs, the diplomat heading the UN mission in Afghanistan said that NATO cannot defeat the Talibaan by brute force alone. Lt. Gen. Ali Mohammed Jan Orakzai, governor of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, said in an interview with Reuters news agency late last month that U.S. and British military actions in Afghanistan were merely feeding a “
The sound and fury of a few good men and women is drowned in the cacophony of those pre-Copernicus dinosaurs (Friedman and company) who believe that “the world is flat.” The sound advice to “columnists” to commit journalistic “hari kari” (not the bloody kind) will be ignored by the Neocon scoundrels, because admitting a mistake would this would suggest the existence of an iota of integrity. It is these same scoundrels that sounded the bugles of war the prepared an susceptible American public to the most affective campaign of disinformation in the history of mankind. The Neocon propaganda eclipses the machinations of Joseph Goebells.
Last year I read an article in a newspaper about a story in Florida. “Python swallows alligator and then explodes“. Mr. Khamenei of Iran said something similar “The occupation of Iraq is not a morsel that the US can swallow,” The worst is yet to come in Iraq and Afghanistan. The last allied or NATO troop will be reminded to “turn the lights off”. Images of the last American helicopter leaving Saigon is etched into the collective memory of political scientists around the world.
The lessons of the Peloponnesian war when Athens lost its democratic roots and it’s independence, because of her prolonged war with Sparta are very appropriate in our current times. The lessons of the British defeat in Iraq and Afghanistan should have been included in the report.
Fortunately the American people scared, and fearful for a few years have been able to see through the fog, and seen the reality. The wrath of the angry American on those who lied to them and misled them will be remembered by generations. President Carter’s new book on Palestine is a breath-of-fresh-air and living testimonial that the American conscience is alive. The American people have spoken and have told the President to withdraw. The American people will not tolerate anything else.
The comic writer Al Franken once wrote of Murdoch: “There’s one important thing you should know about Murdoch. He’s evil. I defer to the … Columbia Journalism Review: ‘Murdoch uses his diverse holdings … to promote his own financial interests at the expense of real news gathering, legal and regulatory rules, and journalistic ethics. He wields his media as instruments of influence with politicians who can aid him, and savages his competitors in his news columns. If ever someone demonstrated the dangers of mass power being concentrated in few hands, it would be Murdoch.’”
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News Corp’s Murdoch: Congress Should OK Colombia FTA April 22, 2008: 07:50 AM EST
WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- News Corp. (NWS) Chairman Rupert Murdoch urged U.S. support of free trade with Colombia, while advocating the expansion of NATO possibly to include non-Western democracies.
In prepared remarks released Monday, Murdoch said that the U.S. should ratify a pending free-trade agreement with Colombia in order to express support for the country, which he lauded for efforts in “fighting poverty, battling the drug lords and taking on terrorists backed by foreign governments.”
“Defeat for the trade deal would be confirmation that the United States is not an ally you could count on,” Murdoch warned in the speech’s text.
Murdoch will receive an award Monday night from the Atlantic Council, a group that promotes close U.S.-European ties. He is the chairman and CEO of News Corp., which owns Dow Jones & Co., publisher of Dow Jones Newswires and the Wall Street Journal.
The pending U.S.-Colombia free-trade agreement was indefinitely sidelined when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., won approval of a procedural change that circumvented a 90-day timetable for Congress to take up the agreement.
Calling attention to an editorial by a newspaper industry rival, Murdoch remarked that “even the New York Times says the Democratic Congress should ratify this trade deal.”
Murdoch’s comments came as part of a speech that also advocated expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and preservation of the West as “a community of values.”
At a press conference before his speech, Murdoch said the traditional Atlantic alliance should be revamped to include Australia, Israel and Japan.
“We have to think beyond just the old Atlantic community as we thought about it as being the United States, Canada, Western Europe and Britain,” Murdoch said at the press conference. He added that NATO – or alternatively a new alliance – should include “countries that cherish the values of freedom and are ready to do something about it, rather than just talk about it.”
Murdoch in his speech called the invitation of Albania and Croatia to NATO “a welcome start” and also expressed support for bids from Ukraine and Georgia to join NATO.
However, Murdoch sharply criticized European nations for failing to adequately support military actions in Afghanistan, saying that NATO had become “weak in practice,” despite geographical power.
“Europe no longer has either the political will or social culture to support military engagements in defense of itself and its allies,” Murdoch said.
NATO’s entry into Afghanistan “exposed its divisions,” with only a few nations pulling their weight, Murdoch said.
NATO expansion “is the only hope of invigorating an alliance weighed down by those who are no longer willing to commit themselves to defend its founding principles,” he added. -By Patrick Yoest, Dow Jones Newswires; 202-862-3554; patrick.yoest@ dowjones.com
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Col Franklin: God Bless you and thank you for your comments!
Patrick
I enjoyed much your classical references and share your concern that unless we “fight” more wisely, we may exhaust ourselves (which is part of our adversary’s asymmetric calculus employed against us).
However I believe Murdoch’s Atlantic Council’s speech to be among the more weighty commentaries of our time.
As someone who hopes soon to return to Afghanistan, I seek any contacts you might have to share correspondence directly or indirectly with Mr Murdock. Any ideas?
Colonel Franklin, PhD.