Some thoughts on the foregoing discussion...
Fox is entertainment news. It is right-wing slanted and, besides it's "fair and balanced" slogan, makes no credible effort to appear otherwise. That said, it was not alone in selling the Iraq war to America: the other "credible" news sources proved cowardly in confronting the administration selling the war, and had they done their jobs and provided real journalism and a real check or balance to the system, the number of Americans buying into the Iraq war would have been much lower.
The Iraq war was criminal, and clearly criminal, from the outset. If you did any independent research into Iraq and the administration's claims leading up to the war, you would have seen they were drawing up a paper tiger. Bushies tend to suggest that this is "revisionist history" and that people who were all for the war now take the opposite stance. This isn't the case. In fact, it's those same individuals who are attempting to revise history. The fact is, most of the world didn't buy into the war, and millions marched in protest against it long before it came to past. The US built a coalition for desert storm because there was validity to that war and it was evident to other nations around the world. The more recent "coalition of the willing" demonstrates that the selling job didn't go down overseas nearly as well as at home, and for good reason. In my opinion, anyone who thought the recent Iraq war was a good idea (before it happened) has no business running a country, and loses a lot of credibility in my eyes. To me, the fraud was obvious from the very first day Bush hinted force might be used.
The US can't take on Iran. It would be a disaster. Iran is more developed in every aspect of their society. The US is already stretched in Iraq, and the popularity of that war is already plummeting. The US doesn't have the manpower or the resources to do in Iran what it did in Iraq, and the US doesn't have the political capital with the rest of the world to expect any help taking on Iran. They have no credibility after Iraq, and rightly so. Fox isn't selling war with Iran, it's selling advertising space. In the midst of a slow summer, with a right wing viewership that isn't going to want to watch what's happening in Iraq, Fox is just looking for something to get people's attention.
|