fairly dangerous entertainment

The above video is interesting in it clearly gives a non bias standing on how Fox News is as it is today.

Now I couldn't really care less about the American media, and there is nothing I like better than people who criticize Obama for the fact he is fighting an endless war in Afghanistan with no clear objective and breaking various electoral promises, but even I can't stomach the outright lies designed to spark an angry crowd with ever mounting hatred in their hearts.

The real issue at the moment regarding Obama above all is the war in Afghanistan which has seen increasing troop numbers there, the real question the media should be pressing to the president is why the US is in Afghanistan and what the clear objective ought to be.

However a homicidal war Bush started in 2001 is hardly news to them, and once the white Christian American boys are killing brown Muslim "Jihadists' I'm sure they'll turn a blind eye to it!

The exact kind of lies Fox use against Obama (socialist, fascist etc.) were used to scrutiny John F. Kennedy, an example being the below flier, several of which were posted around Dallas Texas before Kennedy's faithful last visit!



Regardless of the title 'Fox News' the network has been classed as entertainment and the fact they have a constitutional right to report lies they do just that, instead of promoting an interesting or otherwise insightful point of view it creates its own reality regardless of the truth picking parts of culture or public figures to attack or scrutiny while ignoring the various 'men and women behind the curtain' that are running the real America into the ground.



I personally don't have any idea how anyone with a heart regardless of a political view/ideology can actually take blubbering Bill O'Reilly's half baked interviews or that loud mouth fat-face asshole Glenn Beck's stupid conceived bullshit seriously.

why did Obama get the Nobel Peace Prize?

So Obama won the Nobel Peace prize, my first thought was why, and luckily some news source asked that same question:



But still why?
Why give the peace prize to Obama, the world we live in at the moment is pretty messed up and Obama had the possibility of a Polish Missile Crisis open for over six months after continued Russian threats, not only that but funneling more troops into Afghanistan thus continuing Bush's first war and then saying "you gotta look at the history."



That is something that someone as ignorant as Bush would have said, but Obama has put himself forward as being a man who knows what he is talking about and at peace with himself, not an on edge psychopathic mass murderer who is sending tens of thousands of Americans to a desert country that has already buried several other conquering armies, sure he is trying to eradicate nuclear weapons but its not as if Russian president Dmitry Medvedev doesn't want that to be a reality.

maybe a limited government is what the US really needs

Ron Paul is one of the only politicians that come to mind that tell things how it is about the United States:



Since the Spanish American War of 1898 America in one form or another has interfered with country policies far from its own borders to secure it's interests, this really came to pass after the liberation of Western Europe from the Nazi's in 1945.

Up until 1991 the United States competed with the Soviet Union in the spreading of ideology often destroying smaller countries in the process (Nicaragua comes close to mind there) and setting up parts of the world as buffers against the spread of communism (South Vietnam and Iran) again far from its own borders, however you could argue that this was justified in the name of the Cold War.

Which officially ended in 1991, yet the United States has continued interfering with certain countries far from home launching preemptive wars.

For instance take the 1991 Persian Gulf War:



The US "had to" intervene because Iraq under Saddam Hussein had shown a posture of aggression when he invaded Kuwait, this was true in one sense when you ignore the fact Kuwaitis are ethnic Iraqis and the fact Kuwait 'acquired' its independence in 1961 when it was carved out of Iraq because of its strategic location and the lake of oil that it sits on, you wouldn't be far wrong if you said Kuwait is really just a western oil company with a flag!

Not only that but comparing Saddam to Hitler and trying to display the Iraqi Army as baby murders isn't a just cause for blowing away Iraq's infrastructure and then starving a million of its citizens through harsh economic sanctions before invading the country in its entirety 12 years later.

The cure really did turn out to be worse than the illness in this case!

But what people have said to me is that now Obama is president things are going to be a lot better, no more wars, but still his foreign policy remains the same, America under Obama is far from keeping to its own.



I will ignore the fact that in the past two years the US has set up Africom which puts US forces in 53 African nations spanning across most of the continent.

But what startled me the other day was when asked about why he was sending more and more US soldiers into Afghanistan with no clear sign of a victory he responded with:

“You have to learn lessons from history.”

I'm not sure if he was referring to the lost British Army in Afghanistan from the 19th century, or the fact Jimmy Carter’s administration was responsible for creating, training and arming al Qaeda in the first place and that Jimmy Carter signed an order supporting the Mujahadeen against the USSR in 1979 which spurred the Soviet Union’s invasion that resulted in a decade long bloody war that ended in the Soviets withdrawing after 15,000 of them had been killed and bringing Afghanistan into a bloody civil war that saw the Taliban eventually bought into power!

If only America could have a president that is not oblivious and ignorant to history, I hope that it was a slip up on Obama's half, or even if it was ignorance because if it wasn't then it seems to put forward the fact that he is no better than Bush before him!

Bottom Line: If America and its people restore a country with great potential back to a republic and maybe deal more with internal affairs more than foreign affairs maybe just maybe the federal government will be able to help it's own people!

You know put out wildfires in California or in the case of New Orleans be able to give humanitarian aid to its own people instead of worrying about the rest of the world!