1948 WAR OF THE WORLDS [or world
views?]
Once again I end the week with
the dilemma of either writing on a bible chapter [Hebrews 9] or discussing world
events.
Let me start with a few news
items.
I find it funny how the media has
been covering some recent events.
I also find it degrading that
MSNBC has begun a new era- yes- for the first time I can remember- they are now
continuing to go after the losing side’s candidate- even after the race is
over.
Yes- They have been doing shows-
I guess we should start calling them skits [they are performers you know].
And they are blasting Romney for anything
he says- even as a private citizen- and they are using his life- I guess for
ever- as a talking point.
I guess we will continue to hear
about Ann Romney’s MS- her use of horses- you know- O’Donnell can’t stop
mocking the woman.
Her kids- watch out- MSNBC will
get you too!
This is so sad.
Chris Matthews had on Jim Clyburn
the other day [a Dem congressman] they were discussing the issue of Susan Rice
[UN ambassador].
She’s under fire for her statements
about the Benghazi attack.
To be fair- it does seem like
some on the right misread it- Petraeus did testify yesterday that she did not
change the Talking Points.
But they were ‘scrubbed’ by the
Intel community- not the White House.
This was the big issue- who
removed the part that said Al-Qaida were part of the attack.
Anyway- Clyburn tells Matthews
that- don’t forget- they are going after a young ‘BLACK WOMAN’.
Matthews says ‘go on’.
Very sad indeed.
There were [still are] very
legitimate questions about what Rice said.
Why did she present talking
points that basically said the opposite of what they knew? [even if she’s not
at fault- they were still not accurate].
She did go on in the Sunday
interviews and say Al-Qaida was on the run- yet the truth was they were part of
the attack.
Even if she is innocent- yet she
did present a false narrative.
If this is business as usual-
than we still have a problem.
Israel;
I was at the mission the other day
and some girl asked one of the older guys who works there ‘what are you
reading’.
He told her a news article from
the NY Times about the Palestinian- Israeli fighting.
She asked him why Israel was bombing
the Palestinian area.
He really didn’t have a good explanation-
right at hand.
So I contributed a brief synopsis
[which he later thanked me for- as well as the girl- just to say it wasn’t
rude].
I told the girl that Israel began
this recent action [it’s the largest military action against Hamas- the group
that they are fighting- in years].
Because Hamas started shooting
rockets into Israel about a week ago.
They sent around 300 rockets in-
with no response.
Now- as someone who has tried
very hard to be unbiased about the middle east question [for instance I have
written in defense of the Palestinians many times- something that is the minority
position in Evangelical circles].
Israel had no choice but to
respond.
But some in the media are making
it sound like Israel is to blame.
CNN said ‘this all began when Israel
killed the top Hamas leader’.
Yes- many of you have seen the dramatic
video of the guy being taken out in his car.
But this was not the ‘start’ of
the violence.
If someone bombed your house- say
3oo times- and then you shoot them with a gun.
Well- who started it?
There is a very important story
that should be told- that takes a little time- but the media is not telling
you.
Let’s give it a shot.
First- I’m not blaming Obama.
But elections do have
consequences.
Over the many years of the
fighting about the Palestinian question- Hamas- the group that won the election
a few years back- took power.
Now- they are actually branded as
a terrorist group by the U.S.
They now feel emboldened to act-
to make an all out attempt to raise world awareness- by these initial attacks-
and they are hoping for their own Arab Spring.
Why are they doing this now?
Understand- Hamas is actually an
arm of the Muslim Brotherhood- the group who has now risen to power in Egypt.
The new Egyptian president-
Morsi- has already sent a team to the Palestinian areas- and they are backing
Hamas.
Obama has been very friendly with
the Muslim Brotherhood- and very cold to Israel [though he denies it].
After the re-election of Obama-
it’s only natural for Hamas to think they have much more leverage now- see?
Now- that took a couple of lines-
why couldn’t the media have told you that narrative?
Fahreed Zakariah- a CNN analyst
who I actually like.
He was asked about the release of
a guy who killed some Americans- Iraq was holding him- they let him go.
He blamed the problem on Bush
[yeah- you can use Romney on MSNBC- CNN will use Bush].
He said that Bush was too willing
to work with the radical Islamist groups- and he allowed them to gain some power
in Iraq- and that’s why this happened.
He also said Obama came in and
tried to fix it- but it was too late.
I find it interesting that Fahreed-
who advises the president- has been part of the entire ‘new approach’ to the
Arab world.
Yes- Obama [for good or ill] had
very high hopes of starting a new relationship with the Muslim world.
He sincerely felt if he could
reach out to certain groups [Muslim Brotherhood] than he might be able to
change the tone in that part of the world.
He has made more effort- at normalizing
relations with Muslim groups- than anyone in the history of the presidency.
I just showed you how some of
these efforts might be the root cause of the aggression right now with Israel
and the Palestinians.
Yet- in the middle of the
greatest effort ever made to reach out to- and work with radical groups.
One of Obama’s top defenders said
‘the reason Iraq released the guy who killed our men- is because Bush was too
cozy with radical Islamist groups’.
This would be funny if it weren’t
so sad.
I try to be fair in my analysis
of these things.
When you are simply a cheerleader
for either side [MSNBC on the left- Fox- some- on the right].
Then you lose all credibility-
because people know they can’t trust you with a fair analysis.
But if we can’t- as a nation- as
a globe- see behind the lines- see what’s really going on- then we will continue
to blame one side- or the other- while not really seeing the root cause.
Yes- there are questions still to
be asked.
Maybe the president’s noble
attempt at reaching out to radical elements was doomed from the start.
Maybe one of the reasons we are
seeing some of the worst violence in the Palestinian areas has to do with this.
But for one of the president’s
biggest cheerleaders- who has himself criticized Bush many times for his hard
stance and ‘unwillingness’ to see the Muslim side.
For him to say one of the
problems is Bush was too chummy with radicals- it’s beyond belief.
Yeah- but if we don’t blame Bush-
who else could we blame?
Easy.
Just switch to MSNBC- they’re
still blaming Romney.
Yeah- that will work.
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