Reply #11: Made For TV Theater...

[KharmaTrain]

I agree with most of what you post. Just a few observations. We're seeing a passion play in this country...a push by the corporate and media elite to create a boogie man that distracts from their own ineptness and corruption. Many of us have grown up with a myopic view of the world...how everything that happens is seen through an American media prism. No matter what the issue, it's "how does it affect us"...and thus "American interests" are imposed on other parts of the world and "American views" are imposed on other cultures. Countries that don't "measure up" are savage or "third-world" or a threat. Leaders that don't conform to this "American World Order" are a lunatic and their people are savages. We're seeing this play out on the streets of New York.

Face it, most Americans can't find Iran on a map, yet could associate this culture with that of the Persians. They see a culture that's been portrayed for most of their lives as savages who invaded our embassy and now want to nuke us. The narrative is distorted and has fully clouded this "dialogue" as much as it did last year when Chavez was that year's boggie man.