NATO official: Russia now an adversary

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30. Nowhere near as bad a the Sultan of Brunei, but the govt and its propaganda machines have yet to

demonize the Sultan in they way they demonized Putin and most leaders of Russia since 19o5 and Saddam Hussein--but only after Bush started his plan to go to war with Iraq.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1905

I am not saying Putin and Hussein were good guys. I am saying that the US govt. and its official and unoffical propaganda machines are selective about whom they single out and why. And, please, let's not be naive. It's never been simply because a leader is a bad guy. We'll kiss the same guy and/or bow to him one year and demonize him the next. This year's ally may be next years target. And, it's almost always for reasons other than whether someone is a bad person or not.

For an example, I have never heard a host of the Olympics excoriated by the American govt and media just before and during the Olympics the way that Putin was. Maybe it happened before the Olympics in Germany just before World War II. No clue. But never that I observed and the Olympics are not always held in nations headed by Mother Teresa. And, Russia was also the only nation that ever caused us to boycott the Olympics, something we did not even do to Hitler's Germany.

I have no doubt that people and leaders in other nations have had lots of reasons to demonize our Presidents. Maybe they do not do so as publicly because most nations need us a lot more than we need them. But, they have reason.