4-13-07 The Power Of Denial
Aside from Don Imus being fired for high ridiculosity, and the fact that Alberto Gonzalez is still the Liar General, there really are other things going on in the world. One of them is "the Surge".
Since I posted about this on the 21st of January, I'll just reiterate simply that there is no actual increase in the numbers of soldiers being sent with this "Surge". Rather, some soldiers will remain longer, while some deploy earlier. It adds up to more feet on the ground, thus the choice of that word, "surge". Kinda like calling a traffic jam a "surge".
So, on the one hand we have the Orwellian language of this, but on the other hand we have the immediate response to this "surge" taking place just a short while ago. As commented upon by John Robb today in his blog, Global Guerillas, the destruction of a bridge and the parliament building in Baghdad is a "negative proof" of how well this surge might be working. Since all of this is merely hot air and PR over on this side of the world, this info-war and propaganda cause/effect storm is pretty much the main game here.
Here's the way it works. Dubya huffs and puffs, makes statements that should scare the bejesus out of the enemy "over there". The response is to demonstrate that even the most highly secure location, defended by the United States Military apparatus inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, where John McCain insists that life is safe and secure... is, in a word, not.
This is the problem I have with this administration, all this hot air, and then "negative proof" being demonstrated time and time again. It's almost as if we have George Costanza for a President. The comedians have never had such an abundance of material!
How can George W. Bush even PRETEND to be doing ANYTHING that could be considered even REMOTELY effective in the resolving of issues that he speaks about in public??? The cognitive dissonance in that man's head must be so incredibly overwhelming by this point in time that I don't understand how he can be in the same room with himself!
But, as the character Ricky Fitts said in the movie, American Beauty, "Never underestimate the power of denial." It has been demonstrated by Dubya over and over again. And, just to wrap up where I started, it applies equally to Don Imus and Alberto Gonzalez.
Since I posted about this on the 21st of January, I'll just reiterate simply that there is no actual increase in the numbers of soldiers being sent with this "Surge". Rather, some soldiers will remain longer, while some deploy earlier. It adds up to more feet on the ground, thus the choice of that word, "surge". Kinda like calling a traffic jam a "surge".
So, on the one hand we have the Orwellian language of this, but on the other hand we have the immediate response to this "surge" taking place just a short while ago. As commented upon by John Robb today in his blog, Global Guerillas, the destruction of a bridge and the parliament building in Baghdad is a "negative proof" of how well this surge might be working. Since all of this is merely hot air and PR over on this side of the world, this info-war and propaganda cause/effect storm is pretty much the main game here.
Here's the way it works. Dubya huffs and puffs, makes statements that should scare the bejesus out of the enemy "over there". The response is to demonstrate that even the most highly secure location, defended by the United States Military apparatus inside the Green Zone in Baghdad, where John McCain insists that life is safe and secure... is, in a word, not.
This is the problem I have with this administration, all this hot air, and then "negative proof" being demonstrated time and time again. It's almost as if we have George Costanza for a President. The comedians have never had such an abundance of material!
How can George W. Bush even PRETEND to be doing ANYTHING that could be considered even REMOTELY effective in the resolving of issues that he speaks about in public??? The cognitive dissonance in that man's head must be so incredibly overwhelming by this point in time that I don't understand how he can be in the same room with himself!
But, as the character Ricky Fitts said in the movie, American Beauty, "Never underestimate the power of denial." It has been demonstrated by Dubya over and over again. And, just to wrap up where I started, it applies equally to Don Imus and Alberto Gonzalez.
posted by Jeff Barnard at 10:56 AM
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