Newsweek's forked tongue

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http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1267.shtml


Afghanistan is "falling," have you noticed?




You've probably not heard that Afghanistan is "falling" and that the Taleban is winning. The Nation magazine points out, in part, why you don't know. Newsweek has an international edition, the front page of which features a Taleban warrior and proclaims that the Taleban is taking Afghanistan back. The US edition of Newsweek, however, sports on the front page a picture of Annie Leibowitz, photographer to the stars, completing her rigorous and danger-ridden assignment of interviewing Angelina Jolie.

If you don't know that Afghanistan is "falling," then you don't know why British Prime Minister Tony Blair has "fallen." The British sent 4,000 soldiers, under NATO command, to "reconstruct" Afghanistan.

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If you don't know that Afghanistan is falling, then you cannot process the mystifying pronouncements of Pakistani President Parvez Musharraf on his US tour to promote his autobiographical book, "In the Line of Fire." He claims in his book that White House officials had threatened to bomb Pakistan to the proverbial

Stone Age if Pakistan did not join Bush's "war on terror," declared opportunistically with all deliberate speed and cynical fanfare after the crimes of 9/11.

Because Afghanistan is "falling," Afghan US-stooge in Kabul, Hamid Karzai, is blaming Musharraf's unwillingness to militarize the border between the two countries for the disaster. This means that Musharraf is seeing the handwriting on the wall: Washington would be happy for "regime change" in Pakistan. Musharraf, therefore, is accumulating electoral capital (Pakistan's elections are scheduled for 2007) and political insurance policies by catering to Pakistani national sentiments, which are decidedly anti-US.

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But, oh, what a terrible tragedy for themselves and the world is the US public's impotence before the greatest threat this nation has ever faced: the utter and complete dissolution of the admittedly unrealized character and potential for improvement of the nation, brought low by a group of scheming, murderous, and inept executive berserkers, its totally complicit and trigger-happy Congress, its indistinguishable, corrupt and viciously undemocratic two parties, its craven, villainous judiciary, and their vermin-ridden, bought media.
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ah yes, our bought media