At least you're consistent with your conspiracy theories. I'm hearing we went in to secure the European energy, or just to help the elections there.
Whatever reason I think we didn't do much planning. Big troubles ahead. . On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > The only change is how the media portrayed him. He didn't change at > all. The US propaganda machine is great at sitting up straw men for > us to hate, then changing their stance completely when the next hot > issue comes along. Big bads in the past who are now either our > friends or at least no longer receiving vilification in the media: > Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, Vietnam, Castro, Hugo Chavez, etc.. > Even Bush II changed the rhetoric on Osama, who went from being the > worst evil of all time to being insignificant in the grand scheme. > > When the latest rebellion started in Libya, the conventional wisdom > was the regime would collapse as it did in Egypt so the march of > Middle East countries becoming "Democracies" could roll on unabated. > What didn't happen, and people started being killed in mass, it gave > the NATO countries, especially France, the PR opening they needed to > be able to bring down Gaddafi, which they have long wanted to do. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:335723 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
