A few
comments regarding the ‘Dishonorable Disclosures’ film….
This is an
elaborated comment from a recent thread. It is in reference to the film which
can be found at this link:
Just past
the 1 minute mark....it became obvious it was just propaganda.
Leaking
obviously goes way back. The Intelligence community has a long tradition of
manipulating the media with strategic leaks and planted stories.
Politicians
have also used them. Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon all used leaks regularly....but of
course Nixon became especially outraged when too much was leaked. He had no
problem with leaks per se, he just wanted to control them.
Of course we
all know about Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame and the Bush White House. In that
case, people very likely died.
I guess what
I'm struck by is the inability of the military to realize...they're total
dupes. They are used and abused by those who wield political power.
Nixon almost
certainly delayed the Vietnam peace deal which was ready to go in 1972. He was
worried about the election. Gripped by paranoia he couldn't accept the fact
that he was going to trounce McGovern. He frustrated Kissinger who had the deal
ready and obviously pushed the CRP (CREEP) to go so far as to feel the need to
burglarize the Democratic offices in the Watergate complex.
How many
people died during the latter part of 1972 to serve Nixon's political agenda?
It's all
just sick. Lots of duped and evil people on all sides. That's the nature of
power. Once you an embrace an ethic that accepts the end justifies the means…there
are no limits.
Soldiers can
massacre people and believe it necessary and politicians can lie and
consequently kill their own people and others if their political solvency is ‘good
for the nation’.
Did Obama's
White House leak the Stuxnet info? It’s possible. The video seems positive of
this, but that’s not proved by any means…at least as of right now.
I've been following
it pretty closely, since the New York Times broke the story etc….
The White
House might have leaked it....or the reporters were breaking it anyway, so it
might have been prudent to jump in and control the flow of information.
Sometimes getting involved can be a mechanism of control and shut down some of
the speculation and/or investigation.
Or they
might have leaked it for political gain. Any of these things are a possibility.
But that
video is about as trustworthy as a brat kid left alone in the kitchen with a
plate of cookies.
It's
manipulation. They hate Obama and the forces against him have amassed so much
money they've been able to sit around and dream up tools to employ against him.
This video tugs at the emotions of all the people who have passed through the
military cult. And it is just that…a cult that works diligently to brainwash
its members. And for many of them, it works.
Bush
exploited them, Reagan exploited them, Nixon and Johnson certainly did....but
those men (except Johnson) are all heroes to this crew.
Not to
defend Obama who is also a liar and a murderer...but these ops-level people
seem to miss the gamble his administration took in going after Bin Laden...not
just in Pakistan, but in Abbottabad Pakistan...and the way it was done.
They don't
understand it and that was very evident in the fallout commentary. I heard
numerous people attacking Pakistan and being very critical of Islamabad's
response. They fail to grasp the absolutely impossible situation the United
States has imposed on Pakistan. It is ripping their country apart, destabilizing
the region....and the blowback and consequences of American policy in that
region have not yet come to fruition.
Pakistan has
received some attention in the media, but the public is largely unaware of what’s
happening there with their political situation and how American policy has affected
that country going back (at least) to the 1970’s.
That’s the
nature of Blowback. The public is ignorant and when one of these groups or
nations lash out….the ignorant American public doesn’t see it coming, has no
context in which to place it and sees no connections. Then they fall another
propagandistic tool which suggests the answer is…they’re simply evil. They hate
freedom etc…
And the
American Foreign Policy Beast marches on in response.
If you want
to watch a video that’s truly worthwhile, I recommend: Why We Fight.
This is
not the absurd, dishonest, juvenile and often comical Capra film of the WWII era. This
was made in 2005. It features a good deal of commentary from Chalmers Johnson,
an author I highly recommend.
The actions
of the US with regard to Pakistan and the posture toward India play into every
wild conspiracy theory and propagandistic impulse used by the extremists.
Pakistan is a potential (if not current) powder keg tied in with the chess game
going on in Central Asia. A crisis in Pakistan could cause a chain reaction
bringing India, China, Russia, Iran, Israel and the United States into a very
dangerous situation.
All games.
The people making this video...the CIA officers probably know this....the
soldiers are just dupes and always have been. That doesn't excuse their wicked
deeds.
Remember in
the end, the video was produced to make money to move the viewer to contribute.
And it’s all the more ironic that at the same time the number one bestseller is
a book by a Navy SEAL engaged in the same kind of disclosures and becoming
fabulous rich as a result.
It’s also
ironic that from the standpoint of someone like me the biggest threat to
American security is….the military industrial complex. The commentators in this
video represent this titanic force in our society. It is actually their
willingness or perhaps willful blindness that most endangers the nature of
American life. And I would extend that far beyond the threats of terrorism. It
plays out in the realm of pop culture, economics and other realms as well.
Rather than ‘defend our freedom’ it is the ignorance of this cadre that places
our freedom at risk.