Ralph Peter hits another home run - he brings to light the truth about the media and the New Socialist Progressive Party, the new Democrats. The agenda of the New Socialists is built on misinformation and out right lies. But, thanks goodness, the new media, talk radio, Fox News and the Internet, have changed how America and the world views events of the day.
For the most part, as I see it, real journalism is dead. The old media can not be trusted to deliver the truth about anything.
The old media that gave us news that they thought we needed and flavored with their socialist agenda is on the ropes - many major newspapers are laying off hundreds of employees as the advertising revenues have fallen. Many in the business ask why is this happening? This is how we have always done things. No one has ever quesioned us before
Easy, the general public is not as stupid as the socialists in the media thought they were.
I don't read any newspaper other than the Washington Times or the Wall Street Journal. The Journal must be read with an jaundiced eye, though, as it's editorial pages sometimes has a tendency to stray to the left.
Fox News is as close to the truth as you will find in the electronic media, but here also, one must us common sense when digesting their information - they too have some strange takes on events of the day.
Okay, read Peter's short essay and keep the faith - you now know the battle is joined!
LIARS' ROUND-UP
By RALPH PETERS June 28, 2008 --
THE facts about 'your' security are being torn to shreds by activist liars. And they think that you're too stupid to know the difference.
Let's lay out the worst current examples of media make-believe and election-year truth-trashing:
Whopper No. 1:
America is less safe today than it was on Sept. 10, 2001. Oh, really? Where's the evidence? The Clinton years saw New York City attacked and Americans slaughtered by terrorists around the globe. 'Nothing' was done to protect us. And the true end of the Clinton era came on 9/11. A record to be proud of. Countless aspects of the Bush-Cheney administration deserve merciless criticism. But fair is fair:
Since 9/11, we haven't suffered a single successful terrorist attack on our homeland. Not one. Explain to me, please, how this shows we're less safe. What factual measurement applies, other than the absence of attacks? God knows, the terrorists desperately 'wanted' to strike our homeland. And they couldn't. Are we supposed to believe that was an accident?
Whopper No. 2:
Al Qaeda is stronger than ever. Al Qaeda just suffered a strategic defeat in Iraq that may prove decisive. It can't launch attacks beyond its regional lairs. The cowardly Osama bin Laden can't show his face (remember his Clinton-era pep rallies?). Yes, terrorists can still murder innocents on their home court. I personally prefer that to them killing Americans in Manhattan and Washington. Even in Iraq, al Qaeda's been beaten down to violent-fugitive status. By what objective measurement is al Qaeda stronger today than it was when it had an entire country for its base and its tentacles reached all the way to Florida and the Midwest?
Whopper No. 3:
Success in Iraq is an illusion - the surge failed. Folks, this is something only a New York Times columnist could believe. Every single significant indicator, from Iraqi government progress through the performance of Iraqi security forces to the plummeting level of violence, has changed for the better - remarkably so. If current trend-lines continue, it may not be long before Baghdad is safer for Iraqi citizens than the Washington-Baltimore metroplex is for US citizens.
Iraq's government is working, its economy is booming - and its military has driven the concentrations of terrorists and militia from every one of Iraq's major cities. And our troops are coming home. Where's the failure?
Whopper No. 4:
Iran is stronger than ever. Tell that to the Iraqis, who've rejected Iranian meddling in their affairs, who've smashed the Iran-backed Shia militias and who didn't take long to figure out that Tehran's foreign policy was imperialist and anti-Arab. The people of Iraq don't intend to trade Saddam for Ahmadinejad. Iran has 'lost' in Iraq. At this point, all the Iranians can do is to kill a handful of innocent Iraqis now and then. Think that wins them friends and influence?
Whopper No. 5:
The US-European relationship is a disaster. In fact, Washington and the major European capitals have built new, sturdier bridges to replace old ones that badly needed burning. The Europeans grudgingly figured out that they need us - as we need them. The big break in 2003 cleared a lot of bad air (there was no break with Europe's young democracies). Relations today are sounder than they were in the fiddle-while-Rome-burns Clinton era.
Oh, and NATO has become a serious military alliance - fighting in Afghanistan, patrolling the high seas and conducting special operations against terrorists. The Germans announced this week that they're sending another thousand troops to Afghanistan. France is re-engaging with NATO's military side. Where's the disaster, 'mon ami?'
Whopper No. 6:
As president, Barack Obama would bring positive change to our foreign policy while John McCain is to old to get it done. Hmmm. Take a gander at Obama's senior foreign-policy advisers: Madeleine Albright (71), Warren Christopher (82), Anthony Lake (69), Lee Hamilton (77), Richard Clarke (57) . . .If you added up their ages and fed the number into a time-machine, you'd land in Europe in the middle of the Black Death.
More important: These are the people whose watch saw the first attack on the World Trade Center, Mogadishu, Rwanda, the Srebrenica massacre, a pass for the Russians on Chechnya, the Khobar Towers bombing, the attacks on our embassies in Africa, the near-sinking of the USS Cole - oh, and the US bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.Their legacy climaxed on 9/11.
You couldn't assemble a team in Washington with more strategic failures to its credit.
Whopper No. 7:
Our troops are all coming home as psychos victimized by their participation in military atrocities.Tell it to the Marines.
Ralph Peters' new book is "Looking For Trouble."
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