For those unfamiliar with planet Bizarro, it is
a planet that seems to be a mirror image of Earth from certain issues of the
Superman comic books. People say hello when they mean good-by. Trash is considered treasure. Everyone dresses
up like Superman. Every thing on that planet is the opposite of Earth.
So the recent stories of Gen. David Petraeus
(AKA Be-tray-us) and his sex affair with Paula
Broadwell seem as if the whole thing has been taking part in the Bizarro
World. Here is a man who made a career of helping the US Army conquer a nation
and then kill off all of those who refuse to accept the US installed
phony democracy. He played a major role in the CIA, a spy organization designed
to manipulate, disrupt and sometimes assassinate any people or groups of people
who refuse to support the US
foreign policy objectives. Many of us on the left consider his career to be
nothing more than that of a war criminal.
And yet there is almost overwhelming support
among US politicians and mainstream media pundits for his job of oppressing
people in their own countries and killing lots of people in Iraq and other
countries in the Middle-east. However it took a sexual affair to finally bring
down this war criminal. In this country it is an honor to kill and oppress
people to steal their resources. But cheat on his wife and the man has
committed a serious crime that will probably end his career.
An article in the Kasama
Project points out that politicians
from the right-wing to the liberal left have nothing but “Awe and respect for a vicious war criminal.” The article, by Mike Ely
goes on to say;
“It is amazing to see how David
Petraeus is portrayed as a man of honor and accomplishment throughout the
mainstream commentary, including by people who are considered liberal and even
“progressive.” A sexual affair is portrays as a tragic stain on a brilliant
and honorable career. And his resignation is portrayed as an unfortunate
and even shocking development in the life of a man devoted to service.
What could be more perverse than such a description?”
As the
article points out, it is hard to find any mainstream politician or news pundit
who has anything bad to say about Petraeus, out side of his personal life. Other
than his wife, who cares if he had an affair? That is the least of his crimes.
According to The
New York Times, Petraeus did take the time to speak to lawmakers about
the attacks and answer questions about the (Barack) “Obama administration’s handling of the Sept. 11 attacks in Benghazi that killed
Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans….”
And;
“Mr. Petraeus, who resigned
last week after admitting to an extramarital affair, said the names of groups
suspected in the attack — including Al Qaeda’s franchise in North Africa and a
local Libyan group, Ansar al-Shariah — were removed from the public explanation
of the attack immediately after the assault to avoiding alerting the militants
that American intelligence and law enforcement agencies were tracking them,
lawmakers said.”
And we all know that anyone who opposes what the US has done to
their country and tries to retaliate is nothing more than a “terrorist;”
“They knew right away that
there were terrorists involved in the operation,” said Representative C. A.
Dutch Ruppersberger of Maryland ,
the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.”
By now many of us realize the word terrorism is purely propaganda and
simply means any person or group who takes us on by military means. The term
used to mean that a person or group of persons were terrorist if they did
things to terrorize people, such as a bombing or an assassination that is
designed to scare people into submission. Today it has only propaganda meanings.
Any military or paramilitary group that opposes US foreign policy objectives is
a terrorist group. -សតិវ អតុ
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