Charles Pierce: CNN Mongers the ISIS Fear Then Wonders Where It Came From

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/34355-cnn-mongers-the-isis-fear-then-wonders-where-it-came-from

The sad fact is that nothing that actually happens on the ground against Daesh is likely going to have a material effect on the culture of fear that has been created to infest the American psyche by so many people who should know so much better.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi praised the capture of Ramadi in a TV address. "2016 will be the year of the big and final victory, when Daesh's [IS's] presence in Iraq will be terminated," he said. "We are coming to liberate Mosul and it will be the fatal and final blow to Daesh," he added, in a reference to the largest city under IS control in northern Iraq.

These are actual brave people who did this. And not the vainglorious louts who currently are running for president over here. Or the fearmongering gombeens who run cable television networks that have turned a pretty buck hyping up a bunch of savages in second-hand pick-up trucks into an existential threat to the most powerful nation on earth, and then have had their hired coiffures express surprise when the poll numbers indicate that they have done that job all too well.

A whopping 59% of Democrats are unhappy with the progress President Obama has made on the war on terror, along with 86% of Republicans and 69% of independents. Democrats are nearly split on who is specifically winning, though, with 52% believing neither side is. But a majority—55%—of Republicans feel the terrorist are winning.

What did anyone expect? Since the Paris shootings, and certainly since the shootings in San Bernardino, through the efforts of our leading television news stars, Daesh has been converted into the greatest threat to Western civilization since the Battle of Tours. They are supervillains with mad computer skillz and secret Muslim mind-tricks who can turn Your Children into implacable murder machines. They are so powerful that, to defeat them, we need a 500-ship Navy, a sky full of malfunctioning F-35 strike fighters, another couple of billion down the rathole of missile defense, and Marco Rubio in the White House before we can feel safe. They are too strong for our current military to defeat, but simply electing Chris Christie will scare them straight. Even without any aircraft of their own, they can stand up to our $150 billion Air Force, but the public scorn of a vulgar talking yam will be enough to bring them to their knees. If you want to see what losing the war on terror really looks like, don't look to the Middle East. Instead, watch the television commercials approved by the various Republican presidential candidates. The three Democratic candidates are better, but not by much.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

1. The terrorists with the help of the corporate media, the defence contractors and our

Pandering politicians have already won. We now live in a surevllance state occupied by police that look like an invading army who can shoot on sight with impunity and, as of last week, getting into a UofA basketball game will be like trying to board an airplane. Be afraid, be very afraid, it's good for the bottom line.

[pansypoo53219]

2. JUST LIKE the tea baggers & the rise of tRUMP. funny how that works. THEY ARE THE ENEMY of

democracy.

[countryjake]

3. Kick & Recommend!