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48 years ago next month, television station WTNA in New York aired a five-part television news report called "The Hate That Hate Produced". Hosted by Mike Wallace, the program sought to understand the thinking behind the Nation of Islam and how that thinking came to fruition.
When I read Glenn Greenwald, and I see the daily acceptance by our media of the war-mongering mentality of our government (a mentality we used to decry), I wonder if anyone (or could anyone) create a similar documentary about "The Hate That Hate Produced" that documents the US government's war-mongering before massive numbers of innocent people are killed. The national media is clearly uninterested in the deceit that lead us into Iraq (and that is currently leading us into Iran on a much bigger scale), or the mass-murder it has already produced.
Our government's previous desire for regime change with Saddam Hussein in Iraq, that has now been transferred onto Mahmud Ahmadinejad in Iran and Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, obviously has more to do with the oil they sit on, and flexing our military muscle, than any human rights violation (as if human suffering is a problem) or any perceived threat (certainly not to the US).
It's clear that something outrageously evil is going to transpire (sorry Glenn, but if evil has any meaning, this crowd controlling the White House is it) unless a stronger force can stop it. And by "stronger force" I don't mean a military one.
