Georgia on My Mind

From Stupid to Moronic to Evil

 

Paul Craig Roberts was not only Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Ronnie Raygun, but was also once an associate editor on the Wall Street Journal. His essay published today at Information Clearing House gives a different view of what's happening in the faraway Georgia from that promoted by the Crawford Caligula and his sychophants in the mainstream media.

 

.....today, August 9, 2008, as I write, it is the “liberal” Washington Post that has written an editorial urging the US to go to war with Russia.

 

With its editorial, “Stopping Russia: the US and its allies must unite against Moscow’s war on Georgia,” the Washington Post has established a world record for the maximum number of lies in the minimum number of words.

 

Except for the Washington Post, the entire world knows that Georgia (the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, not Georgia USA) initiated the aggression that killed Russian peacekeepers and hundreds of civilians in South Ossetia, peacekeepers who were there with the blessing of Georgia and international agreements.

 

The true facts are available all over the world press. But the “liberal” Washington Post serves up the lie that Russia has attacked Georgia and conceivably plans to conquer all of Georgia. “This is a grave challenge to the United States and Europe,” thunders the Bush Regime’s mouthpiece, aka, “the liberal media.”

 

Thirsting for blood, the “liberal media” declares: “The United States and its NATO allies must together impose a price on Russia.”

 

Here we see the combination of idiocy and delusion in one sentence. The United States has proved that it is incapable of occupying Iraq, much less Afghanistan. Russia has a large trade surplus. America’s NATO allies are dependent on Russian natural gas. Yet the “liberal” Washington Post wants a bankrupt US and “its NATO allies” who are dependent on Russian energy “to impose a price on Russia” for defending its peacekeepers!

I would recommend reading the complete article (follow link in title above) which is mainly about the MYTH of a "liberal" media.

 

He prefaces this essay with one of my favorite quotes from John Stuart Mill:

 

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.