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I am kinda worried abou this. I was watching the news yesterday when Obama was talking about pulling troops from Afghanistan. Jon Stewart did a little joke about how he had this huge press conference to announce he was only removing a small portion of troops (total amount of troops on ground is higher than they were when he entered office).
Obama went on to talk about Libya and how there are 0 US troops on ground, and said something along the lines of how international efforts in wars is how they are going to be won.
I personally am a bit worried about this. It sounds like a rallying call to me. Most of American public like Obama for getting Osama, so it is easy for him to slip the idea of a international effort AKA world war into their heads. It becomes even easier for him to do this when he compares Afghanistan (mainly US effort, huge failure) to Libya (mainly UN effort, significant success). People think, "hmm, we have lots of US ground troops in Afghanistan and we didn't have much significant progress". And then they look at Libya and see the benefits of a more cooperative effort and almost unconsciously begin to support world war before the word even appears in political rhetoric.
This is how politicians prime the public for new decisions. Its all subconscious. Without even think lots of people would watch that news coverage and come away from it in support of huge groups of countries all taking sides against one another. Awesome. That sounds just like a eugenics movement to me.
Obama went on to talk about Libya and how there are 0 US troops on ground, and said something along the lines of how international efforts in wars is how they are going to be won.
I personally am a bit worried about this. It sounds like a rallying call to me. Most of American public like Obama for getting Osama, so it is easy for him to slip the idea of a international effort AKA world war into their heads. It becomes even easier for him to do this when he compares Afghanistan (mainly US effort, huge failure) to Libya (mainly UN effort, significant success). People think, "hmm, we have lots of US ground troops in Afghanistan and we didn't have much significant progress". And then they look at Libya and see the benefits of a more cooperative effort and almost unconsciously begin to support world war before the word even appears in political rhetoric.
This is how politicians prime the public for new decisions. Its all subconscious. Without even think lots of people would watch that news coverage and come away from it in support of huge groups of countries all taking sides against one another. Awesome. That sounds just like a eugenics movement to me.
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