Demonizing 'the other',

which is a virtual requisite for waging

an unending war against 'evil Muslim extremists',

is easily achieved by

the American media establishment

Tasteful Propaganda?

Does a day pass in Mediaworld without

being reminded of the Holocaust?

From Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN, to Jon Stewart,

South Park, the late night programming

on the Cartoon Network, or spouting politicians,

there's that relentless propaganda again

Due to the general ignorance the average American citizen has of the Muslim peoples of faith around the world, and especially in the Middle East,

For example, consider how the notion of an American landscape built upon 'Judeo-Christian' values has been tirelessly promoted throughout the media industry.

Your typical American could probably not even cite a difference between Christianity and Judaism, let alone cite several differences between these respective religious systems of belief.

But rest assured virtually all Americans could say of Islam that it was founded by some Arab dude named Mohammed, and then cite Muslim leaders calling America and Israel 'Great Satan' and 'Little Satan', and there you go...

Verily, if need be Americans could quickly deem Hinduism to be an evil religion that believes in an endless variety of Gods, denies altogether the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has a caste-based economy akin to slavery, mistreats their women, etc.

Oh yeah, ‘our’ media could quickly enough rally Americans around the flag to fight India too.

Lucky for India though they have nothing more to offer us other than cheap corporate labor; but ‘we’ can easily enough deem anybody who is not white ‘sons of Ishmael’ and American minds will know no difference.

If one has ever perused through right-wing web sites or even American armed forces web sites, you may have come across a common epithet for Muslims that is routinely coined — ragheads.

This is akin to calling Native ‘Americans’ godless savages, African ‘Americans’ black as evil slaves, or Jewish ‘Americans’ Christ-killers; it demonizes the other making them readily susceptible targets for the young ignorant masses that comprise our Army and Marine recruits.

And once young minds are imbued with such racism, that is reinforced daily, there is never ever a time when they can be deprogrammed.

It took Hollywood and the general media, and a generation of Scofeld raised Bible-thumpers, generations to deprogram the American masses from anti-Semitic thinking, and outside a couple of extremist right-wing groups, if anyone so much as even questions American support of Israel they are tar and feathered (Mel Gibson), labeled anti-Semitic (John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt), and effectively ostracized (Judith Regan).

Yet with today’s ADD America we must daily be reminded of our unconditional support for Israel and that Jon Stewart lights candles for 8 days instead of going to midnight mass).

So...

You tell me how many 17 and 18 years olds, who have basically been indoctrinated with a negative world-view of the Islamic faith, i.e., the golden lie, ‘not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims,’ are going to be able to distinguish between ‘Islamofascism’ and Islamic fundamentalism?

I venture to anecdotally say, not very many. Indeed, most Americans probably believe lesser jihad is one of the five pillars of Islam..

And of course, since 9/11 Americans are incessantly fed the spiel about how those Islamic terrorists were attacking Americans, and are entirely ignorant of exactly what the targets of the attacks represented, the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, the White House, the U.N. building.

If American idiots understood that the targets of the ‘terrorist’s’ attack were actually the same forces that oppress us (or in the case of the U.N. that distract us), then one day we may actually begin to deliberate upon the concept of ‘peace on earth’; but I wouldn’t hold your breath.

If the ‘terrorists’ were actually attacking us, three Sunday morning football stadiums would have been much better targets, a fact of which I am sure even Osama is aware.

And if you want to rebut with the ‘terrorist’ attacks on U.S. armed forces stationed in the Middle East, well that would be kind of like Donald Trump walking in the streets of Watts (a notoriously poor black gang filled area) and saying, “well I don’t know why they rolled me . . .”) Spain bombing, political, and it worked. London, rogue elements.

Not that any of the above facts are relevant anyway. Our government shall ever increasingly make ‘ours’ a war economy, and more and more a war-like nation.

Indeed, I suspect within 6 months we will probably have another Gulf of Tonkin like event (this time in the Persian Gulf though) that will necessitate ever more money for war, and possibly even the draft.

You see, with a slumping economy, and your average American going hopelessly further into debt, about the only way out is to stimulate the economy with the truest form of economic stimulus known — war!

I hope I am wrong, but I do notice a couple more aircraft carrier strike forces are being deployed in the Persian Gulf, right-wing think-tanks are screaming to high heaven about how dangerous Iran is, and there really is no future for poor young peckerwoods, or blacks, in this nation anymore. But they do fill body bags nicely . . .

The bottom can fall out here, or the rich man can get richer by using them for God, country, and glory.

The corporate giants in the media and entertainment industries are but the devices used to make us think what ‘they’ want us to think, you ever watch any of those ‘glorious’ WWII movies with Audie Murphy or John Wayne . .

Sophie’s Choice, Exodus, Fiddler on the Roof, The Ten Commandments.

I don’t think one needs a PhD from Yale to figure this one out.

An addendum:

I do not think it is so much about not remembering the Holocaust, because one cannot barely even watch any news program (whether it is Fox News, MSNBC, or CNN), Jon Stewart/South Park/or even the late night programming on the Cartoon Network, or listen to a politicians’ speech without being reminded of the Holocaust.

And I can totally understand the battle-cry ‘never again!’; indeed, what the Nazi government, and the ‘patriotic’ people of Germany, did was a horrifying chapter in mankind’s history.

And there is not a ‘but’ that can follow that, yet there is a when. When will American politicians quit saying Israel has our unconditional support?

When will Americans quit turning a blind eye to Jewish settlers taking more land from the Palestinians and saying “God said I could”?

When will we have an American presidential candidate say, “I will suspend all economic and military aid to Israel if they do not recognize Palestinian authorities”?

When will Israel cease to be a topic of American politics? When will other people quit paying for the sins of the Huns? I suspect never...

Hmmm, what is going on around here?

Not to cast any malevolent aspersions upon the American government, because we all know they could never be decidedly evil, yet it seems an all too familiar process of pitting differing factions of conquered territories against each other, let them primarily kill each other off, and then to the victors go the spoils of being the invaders puppet government.

Yet, being just an ignorant layman myself, I would never assume that Ivy League educated lawyers and scholars would ever be able to preconceive such a modus operandi, even one that has been practiced for millennia, and that any public debates that occur daily on all the news shows are just so much smoke and mirrors...

Because as we talk countless Iraqis are dying, oil and war revenues are flowing, and the status quo is thriving...

Nah, it couldn’t be, could it? Jacob's Spring