Posted by
Furious on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 9:40:02 AM
"I wonder why we never read about these things in the New York Times."
So asks a fellow reader in the comments section.
Duh? Can someone say "agenda" or "template" or "partisanship"?
These words, from a previous poster, have been echoed by millions of people over the years.
Who decides how much emphasis is given to a particular story? Why are some, potentially embarrassing to the Time's template, buried in obscure locations, while a perceived embarrassement to the current administration often gets an above the fold, color, headline?
So why Zimbabwe now? Why now? This has been going on for decades!
Many fools attempt to conflate the Iraq conflict with whatever is goung on in this pathetic excuse for a nation. Some still point out the false assertion about "blood for oil".
Let's see. Nigeria has oil and a war. Venezuela has oil and a dictator. Saudi Arabia has oil and America hating madrassas. Russia has oil and hates us. Why no American invasion there? Besides, where is all this Iraqi oil? I haven't seen any. Has anyone at the Times actually bought any gas lately? Or don't subways burn gasoline?
How about we invade Alaska and the continental shelf first and take their oil?
Actually, if The Times opened up a forum on pre-school Peruvian heath care, some political psycho would somehow manage bring Iraq into the conversation. It's a sickness. It must be.
I say we just lawyer up against Mugabe. This is the Liberal plan to win the global war on terror, isn't it? Or is there no more war?
It didn't seem to work with Saddam, but so what? Failure is a liberal's best friend anyway. They love their failures more than they love their hero's. (Example: Jimmy Carter!)
Let's just apply the legal strategy to Zimbabwe.
Think of how long this tyrant will last and imagine the horror on his face when he is served with supoena's by a few of the unbathed members of the ACLU! Yikes! We would, of course, read Mr. Mugabe his Miranda rights and provide him even better lawyers than the government uses(all taxpayer funded, of course).
And, of course, he would comply with all the court's orders, since, it appears, our laws are now the world's laws. (But please make sure Mugabe got that memo.) Problem solved. If we would only have listened to the Sulzbergers. Their towering intellectual certitude becomes more and more obvious as the years pass by.