Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Theatrics and Spin: Made in America

Suddenly the political theatrics gurus and spin doctors are in full gear in Obama’s America. They are going to “talk the trees into growing blue feathers” and they may succeed: such is the state of mind of the ever-gullible, permanently indoctrinated, thoroughly brainwashed people of the United States of America who are persistently subjected by their own political establishments to feel fearful of foreign ideologies, external non-existent and self-fabricated threats from demonized nations. America’s security is at risk – and the slogan always works – the media drills the message into the deeply troubled psyche of the American people and the spin doctors and the theatrics gurus know it. They have gone into full operation to get their “Chief” re-elected for the second presidential term.

And the world will have to suffer, specifically the Muslim world, and most particularly Pakistan and its people, this time around, the American atrocities that are going to be inflicted, as always to prove that there is a “tough guy” in the White House to save Americans from the nasty, uncivilized and brutal forces of Islam. A long time ago, there was a threat from the native American Indians which was overcome by gallant American cowboys. The threat of socialism and communism was crushed by God-fearing, democratically spirited Obama predecessors and by American covert and overt wars in Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere – and indeed, cheered on by perpetual media propaganda and Hollywood films. Bush hyped the Iraqi threat by blatant lies and a complaisant media. And now, Barrack Hussein Obama is there to respond resolutely to the Islamic threat – the misguided Muslims in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After all, Americans are the “chosen people of God.” Hail Caesar, Hail Obama! What else can a nation ask for?

Whether Osama Bin Laden is dead or alive, or died 8 years ago, is not the important issue. Let us step back a bit: in December 2001, the American hyped-up media in its anti-Islamic zealousness and to justify American military-political aggression against Iraq-Afghanistan had broken the news that Osama Bin Laden was killed in Tora Bora. This was later officially denied. George W. Bush figured out that a dead Osama Bin Laden would cause the loss of momentum in the so-called war on terrorism and, in fact, Osama Bin Laden’s death would work contrary to Bush’s fundamental global objectives of American hegemony in the Central Asian Islamic States and South Asia to control the region’s natural resources, including gas, petrol and other valuable mineral deposits. So, in hindsight, Bush lied as he had lied to the world community and American people about the weapons of mass destruction threat from Saddam Hussain’s Iraq.