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2006-10-25 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Bobby 2006-10-25 06:52|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I disagree. "Security" cannot be won, because it is an emotional state that varies between people. Unfortunately, it is a term also used by the unscrupulous to get what they want, like its nebulous twin, "Safety".

So the real definition of winning is different.

Ironically, half of winning is forcing through the view that you *have* won on a MSM that refuses to acknowledge that reality. If they can band together and refuse to admit something, for many people, it will not be a fact. And they will keep at it, years after the fact, to rewrite history so that only their version of events is known.

And today, not only is the MSM convinced that the war in Iraq is a failure and a loss for the US, they are emotionally invested in proving those lies to itself and others. That Iraq is a failure and a loss because it *must* be a failure and a loss.

How many in the MSM were utterly crushed when the Iraqis voted, and proudly showed their blue fingers? Many of them felt pain that such a truth had penetrated their armor of lies. It was *wrong* that the Iraqis were free, because the US is evil, and evil will never free people.

So it doesn't matter that the Iraqi people are free of the monster Saddam, or that they live in a constitutional democracy, or that they are now a friend of the US and troublesome to dictatorships throughout the ME.

Unless the MSM is bitch-slapped and forced to accept the US victory, they will deny it to their graves, because it is a reality repugnant to them.

They embrace it like all the other lies they embrace, and are bitter and despairing.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-25 09:26|| 2006-10-25 09:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Moose, "they will deny it to their graves, because it is a reality repugnant to them."

Any different from throwing out the words American Civil War and slavery and states rights? Over a hundred years, the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the US Constitution and people will still argue the 'nobility' of the cause. The participants are dead. Have been dead for generations, but just watch the posts that will now follow. Why would you expect the contemporary left to act any different?

Posted by Procopius2K 2006-10-25 11:09|| 2006-10-25 11:09|| Front Page Top

#3 I wouldn't. But the right must have its own voice, even at the expense of breaking up the media oligopoly. Control of broad sections of the public discourse by a cabal dedicated to anti-American distortion is a clear and present danger to our country.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-25 14:20|| 2006-10-25 14:20|| Front Page Top

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