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- From: mwd@cray.com (Mark Dalton)
- Subject: Re: U.S. "spokesman"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.233623.1269@walter.cray.com>
- Originator: mwd@snoid
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- Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:36:23 CST
-
- In response to:
- Here I really beg for some opinions of americans who support
- this neo-colonialism, I just would like to know how the
- clear facts can be twisted. . . .
- _____________________________________________________________
-
- I cannot say I support the neo-colonialism, because I don't.
-
- Personally I completely disagree with their approach to
- the "Gulf War", and now this. It really makes me embarrased
- to be an American.
- The facts are not always twisted, they are sometimes
- outright lies. A certain previous president of the U.S. exemplified
- that to me. By comparing Kuwait to "a harmless puppy dog"
-
- But to answer your question:
- The facts in our media in the U.S. are commonly twisted, as
- is are in medias across the world. The point is that they
- are trying to do a number of things:
-
- 1. Justify their actions.
- In the U.S. I feel:
- - to gain a foot hold in the Arab Nations
- - To maintain access to major oil supplies
- - Justify military spending to the U.S. citizens.
- - To hopefully spark the economy.
- 2. Gain support of the country.
- - The false or twisted "news" is used to get citizens up
- in arms, support the military in whay I think is typically
- blind ignorance.
- - The country would fight against the war often if they actually
- believed or knew we where doing things out of aggression
- or perhaps (I would like to think) out of gread.
- 3. Boost morale.
- - To see that we are doing something "good for the world"
- makes many people happy.
- (Much more than we went and blasted some people, for no
- more reason then to show how "tough" we are).
- (which a certain portion of the population would like
- a seem to associate these people with police, basically
- people on power trips).
-
-
- ___________________________________________________________________
- These opinions are my own and DO NOT necessarily reflect those of my
- company.
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- Mark Dalton
- Cray Research, Inc.
- Eagan, MN 55121
- Internet: mwd@cray.com
-