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June 04, 2006
It's all about American atrocities
Belmont Club points out the media's inability to see the forest for the trees, as a result of the profession's willful myopia when it comes to the actions of anyone but the West and its nefarious figurehead, Chimpy McBushitler.
Question: what's the most important news story of the past week? Haditha, Haditha, Haditha, Haditha, Canada, Britain. Ooops. Haditha, Haditha. Haditha. That's not to say the possible misconduct of US military personnel is not news, but the characteristic of correctly functioning sensory organs is that objects appear in their due proportion. If mice seemed the size of elephants and elephants the size of mice a visit to the doctor would seem in order. The press is the public's sensory organ.
Pajamas Media has a roundup of stories on the recent terrorism arrests in Canada involving suspects, many of them teens, who had never been to Afghanistan or Iraq, were as Canadian as Molson Beer or American as Apple Pie and had in their possession three times the explosive used in the Oklahoma City bombing. But large as the Canadian story is it is probably only part of something even larger.
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A week back the FBI and the Justice Dept announced that they were conducting "urgent" investigations into terror cells across the US, and in particular in NYC. The next day, British intelligence made a similar announcement.
Then, we had the London raid and the Toronto raid. Clearly, something massive is in the works, spanning at least three major Western countries. But, if Canada is a target, why not France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Germany?
My guess is they are also targets. An early report out of London also said that police had ordered a five mile no fly zone around the site of the bust. This might also indicate they suspect rocket launchers.
Three tons of explosive. Suicide poison gas vests. MANPADs maybe. Home grown. Move along now, nothing to see here. Haditha is a story, but no matter how much anyone wants to keep it on the front page the sad reality is the really bigger stories won't stay still. They keep trying to climb above the fold.
There's something big coming; we all know it. The jihadis have been probing our defenses, looking for the blockbuster followup to 9-11. But you won't learn about the threat by watching TV, or reading the newspapers, all of which are notably reluctant to identify who the enemy is, and what they want to do to us.
Because, you see, it really is all about HadithaHadithaHaditha-Gitmo-Abu Ghraib.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 4, 2006 05:23 PM
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