We should drop bombs

by Ted Rudow III, MA (Tedr77 [at] aol.com)

Tue, Nov 18, 2014 1:49PM

A new analysis of corporate TV news has found there was almost no debate about whether the U.S. should go to war in Iraq and Syria. The group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting found that of more than 200 guests who appeared on network shows to discuss the topic, just six voiced opposition to military action. On the high-profile Sunday talk shows, out of 89 guests, there was one antiwar voice: Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation.

The numbers sort of speak for themselves—205 guests, 125 were pro-war, six were against the war. This is the wars in Iraq and in Syria. The debate sometimes looked rather passionate; it had the appearances of a real debate. But what they were really debating was the mechanics of war, whether we should drop bombs just on Iraq or on Iraq and Syria, whether Obama was aggressive enough.

Nearly every one of American's war were for some kind of trade advantage or money or for territory.Which of course were always fought under different excuses.The U.S. fought a war with the French to grab French terrritory, they fought a war with the British before that to grab British territory, and they fought a war with the Spanish to grab Texas, California and nearly all the Western half of the United States.

Ted Rudow III, MA

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§I'm curious, Ted

by Mike Novack

Wed, Nov 19, 2014 4:55AM

"The U.S. fought a war with the French to grab French terrritory, they fought a war with the British before that to grab British territory, and they fought a war with the Spanish to grab Texas, California and nearly all the Western half of the United States. "

I'm curious, Ted. WHEN do you imagine was this war between the US and France?OK, before there was a US, the British fought a war with the French in which they grabbed Canada and "Ohio Territory". But no US yet.

And you seem to have a strange idea about our wars with the Spanish. Mexico was already independent from Spain when we fought it to gain what is now Arizona and New Mexico. Texas had earlier broken away from Mexico and California also was out of control from the central government in Mexico City. Nothing like all of the western half of the US, much of which the French sold us and part the US and the British (Canada not yet independent) grabbing from the aboriginal inhabitants. Yes we indeed did fight with Spain, but that was much later to bring Cuba and the Philippines under our control.

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