America in Decline

The Wall Street Journal had a great editorial Drill, Drill, Drill that makes an excellent point. Daniel Henninger says that the US Congress, Senate, and public, have purposefully chosen regress over progress. This purposeful decision maybe a mistake, but never-the-less, that is where we find the US today. The US has chosen to be unimportant economically, strategically, and technologically. (I'll add, about the only thing we excel at is porn, online gaming, and pro-sports. But, hey, were happy.)

The media pushes this nonsense at us and we start to think that this is the way the world really is. But, the liberal left, and the media, are committing fraud by only telling us only part of the truth--verses telling us the "whole truth."

For example, when every I see pictures of News about the Middle East, the scene is always portrayed as some poor dusty village. The News pictures always show us bombed out buildings. The women and children are always bedraggled. The public square and market place are in crumbling ruins. Life in this war-torn world appears to us, in the affluent West, to be a horrible existence, requiring US and UN Financial Aid. Maybe a little more compassion would right the lives of the stragglers milling about in the mangled public square.

Additionally, aside from an occasional Molotov Cocktail or rubber tire burning scene, men are not present in these poetic images. In my mind, I always thought the men were in the guerrilla camps training to slit Americans by the throat. No doubt the media wants us to think that the men are all dead at the hands of those "nasty Americans". In either case, the media has left holes in their story so that we are forced to make unwarranted assumptions about the conditions of life in the Middle East.



Here, another facet of the story that is never seen. The men aren't at home because they are away at their construction jobs, in Dubai. Note, Dubai has more construction workers than residents.