Frankly, I'm grappling for a strategy as I see the pro-war forces seizing victory. My little pea-brain is not smart enough to outsmart them. They are winning.

--rrheard - You seem to be left in the dust without realizing that anything has happened.

You're becoming a real annoyance. Here's a newsflash--when it comes to "war" the elites who make the decisions are impervious to public opinion.

This nature of this particular incident plays right into their hands, and no amount of "strategy" is going to change that or the ensuing spin.

You are right and wrong--right about having a pea-brain and wrong about me realizing that anything has happened. It's precisely the same thing that happens over and over again. American elites use a tragic one-off event as propoganda to fuel "wars" against statistically unlikely events, that kill a statistically small number of people compared to say preventable hospital deaths, auto accidents, or natural disasters. And statistically speaking will always happen (so long as we continue down our current foreign policy path) no matter what we do to prevent them. Because you can't prevent the individual perpetration of violence on others by any means known to mankind.

And you know what--I was smart enough to know this is precisely how this ME mess would transpire and play out. We've got a long track record on which to make accurate predictions. I tried to stop it when it was still possible to do so, but here's the truth, America is comprised of really really really dumb fearful people. And the people that run the show know precisely how to manipulate them. We'll either lose or go broke doing what we're doing, or lie and claim some sort of victory and nothing will have changed in the long run in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Maybe if all the family's of all the veterans of all our stupid wars of the last 60 years would refuse to buy into the bullshit that fuels them and use their voices NOT to cheerlead but fight for their family members to be brought home--maybe they'd be listened to because their voices are authentic and have currency. Mine doesn't.

But that's never going to happen because people have been brainwashed into believing criticism of the basis of war-making is criticism of servicemembers. Separated/retired servicemembers are too concerned that their "service mean something" rather than recognizing the truth, speaking it, saving the lives of their brothers/sisters in arms, and living with the reality that they fought and died for lies.

Here's another big newsflash--we never send our servicemembers around the world to kill to "protect us" or to "protect and defend the Constitution." At least not in the last 60 years we haven't.

I'm tired of trying to convince anybody of anything when it comes to war. Big segments of America think they're living a John Wayne movie and like it. And they'll keep on living that fantasy until it crumbles around them. And that's a tragedy of epic proportions, but one I can't fix. I've got bigger problems of my own and it's about time somebody else took up the anti-war fight.

I'm out of gas and just don't care anymore. 5 major wars in my lifetime. My pea-brain can only come to one immutable truth--the American people either like or are willing to tolerate a constant state of war against somebody all the time. It is apparently who we are. Otherwise they'd be putting their lives on the line to peacefully stop it. Sad truth is most people will give lip service to caring but that's about it.

Upon further reflection into what "everyone else is reading and thinking" all over the world, I've decided to shriek hysterically that the Muslims have successfully infilitrated the American military at all levels and in coordination with the Iranians are on the verge of taking control of our entire nuclear arsenal and detonating devices in 12 US cities on December 25, 2009--striking at the heart of Christian America by vaporizing people on Baby Jesus' birthday while they open gifts from Chris Kringle.

Because I heard it on Faux, CNN, and WorldNetDaily and they have a big viewership and that's what dictates the terms of reality, I'm heading directly into my room to hide under my bed.

I read the MSM because I want to know how they are influencing public opinion. I guess you don't want to know. You're tiny little world is so complete!

How would you know what I want to know or how big or small my "media" world is?

My point is that the Telegraph.co.uk might have certain biases. And that it may not be the most reputable source of "news".

And in actually stepping outside my "tiny world" by following the link you provided, I learned that the Telegraph piece used anonymous sources and decontextualized snippets of peoples remarks to frame the piece in a particular way.

So what's you point? Because I'm not running around shrieking that the Muslims hordes are infilitrating the American military en masse and it's a "serious problem" that needs a serious solution based on the actions of 1 man, I'm somehow not taking it seriously?

It was a heinous crime by an individual. Is it somehow different from the actions of a serial killer or the Columbine Boys because he was Muslim? If so how?