Posted on 10/09/2001 2:13:31 AM PDT by freeplancer
You've brothers & sisters sharing your rage, you know?
Seek them out at FreeRepublic's own, CCRM.
You're vision, anger, & input is badly needed as this behavior can only get worse.
...& it can get worse.
Otherwise a good piece. Thanks for watching PBS and reporting on it -- I can't stomach viewing it myself.
Had the misfortune to listen to a radio broadcast of "60 minutes" last Sunday, and heard them do a similar trick:
(a) First Mike Wallace blamed GWB for not signing on to some treaty banning chemical and biological weapons (riiiiight, like signing that treaty would stop terrorists from using them ---bwahaha!); then
(b) Wallace expressed shock that the chem and biological weapons inspections had been halted in Iraq for the last 3 years -- NEVER MENTIONING WHO cancelled the inspection program --Bill Clinton of course!
with regard to sick willie, they really let him go on the fact that there was never any evidence that the factory he bombed was anything other than an aspirin factory, or that this co-incided with ML's testimony.
They are attempting to protect Shrillary, no doubt from anything that casts her in an unfavorable light
Bingo! All of the "math", geometry, stone architecture, and agricultural knowledge that was present in the middle ages sprang from a much, much earlier civilization that arose probably around 12,000 years ago or so, when the climate stabilized. This early civilization was definitely worldwide as has yet to be properly identified or respected by "mainstream" archeology. Most archealogy is mired in the ridiculous idea that the Great Pyramid is a 4500 year old tomb (even though it was found sealed empty) built with ropes and copper chisels.
I only viewed the first segment, and missed the second, so I can't comment on the implications of comparative coverage between Reagan and Clinton. However, in the first segment they did give quite a bit of explanation about how the Vietnam experience colored the perception of the high ranking military advisors. Numerous times they referenced the military's demand that clear and concise mission and goals be presented before committing them. With the exception of the attack on Libya, the Reagan administration addressed terrorism as a policing, rather than military operation. Suspects were identified, arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. The problem with that approach, as noted by Frontline, was that it only addressed the low level participants in direct action. It did nothing to address the high level players who remained free to continue their agenda of terror. Credit was given to the raid on Libya for actually suppressing world terrorism for several years after the attack.
The impression that I got from viewing the show was that President Reagan was deeply concerned about the welfare of hostages and struggled to conceive a policy that would achieve its goals in a way that minimized collateral damage. His cabinet was divided and he made the best decisions he could, which in retrospect weren't altogether effective.
I have a deep respect for President Reagan and felt that the first segment treated him fairly while making an accurate analysis of why the policing model is ineffective against worldwide terror organizations. If anything it went a long way towards justifying President GW Bush's current policy of using military operations to go after entire terrorist organizations and the regimes that support them.
Well, actually, it stopped about 450 years ago, when the Muslim empires were so convinced of their military, scientific superiority that they withdrew into insularity. Meanwhile, Europe underwent a massive renaissance...
a couple of hundred years later the Muslim empires were in for a rude awakening.
As far as this business about Reagan being inept, it's obvious that the media simply cannot help letting its ideological bias creep into to anythng related to him. Few people realize how profound Reagan's efforts were in the destruction of Communism.
Fear not, 30 years from now, the history books will call him Ronaldus Magnus.
I read on a previous post, that they stole base-ten and zero from the Indians.
The Qu'ran is NOT inspired writing. Their allah is a manufactured god. Their god is NOT my God.
who watches the "People Brainwashing System" anyway.
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