The liberal elitist news media and the slightly more conservative George Bush Jr. call it a war.
It’s not a war. If it’s a war, where’s the enemy air force, their army, their navy?
They don’t have one. So, how can it be a war?
George Bush is unwittingly Charles Mansonizing this thing. Remember Charles Manson, the skulking vagabond wretch who got some of his doper stooges to kill for him? Manson wanted to be in show business, but didn’t have talent, so he got revenge by killing a few random show business people.
The mainstream news media, for some reason, was impressed with the little bogus guru, and gave Manson the fame he always craved. They put his photo on the cover of Life. They interviewed him in his cell. They still do.
Back in the old days, they wouldn’t have interviewed him. They would have taken him out and hanged him from a sour apple tree like he deserved. They had guts back then.
Bush is doing the same thing for the Sept. 11 terrorists by calling this a war. He’s building them up, giving them more fame and power than they deserve. They love it.
You know how when you’re watching a baseball game on TV, and some jerk in the stands decides to rip his clothes off and jump down onto the field and run nude before the cameras----showing off his shortcomings. The camera guys turn the camera away so the jerk won’t have the satisfaction, the attention he craves.
Why can’t Bush do that with the Sept. 11 bums, a few bearded slobs hiding in a basement in Tunis with their cell phones? If this is a war, why hasn’t the al-Qaida U-boat pack begun sinking American shipping off the coast of Florida?
Where’s the war?
I’m not saying ignore ‘em, pretend they don’t exist. We should go after them, but like in the baseball game, turn the cameras off. Don’t run cock-and-bull-what’s-his-name (Ben Laden’s) picture anymore on TV.
I guarantee if you want to hurt ‘em bad, the one thing they can’t stand, whether it’s Manson or Ben Laden-----is to be ignored (at least on the surface). Even Jesse James used to peruse press clippings of his own exploits.
Maybe Bush feels he’s more important if he thinks of himself as a war leader.
In the early 19th century, pirates off the coast of North Africa began plundering and hijacking American ships. The motives then were basically the same as they are today (minus religion), plunder and influence.
We battled the pirates, but we didn’t call it a war.
That would have given the pirates, despicable, lousy criminals that they were, a stature they didn’t deserve.
Cmon guys!
