Forget Politically Correct – Check out Politically Ignorant
By Michael Bresciani (08/06/06)
How many Americans know what is really going on in the Middle East?
Perhaps Americans are working and playing too hard to get the true
picture. What is brewing there comes with no promise to remain over there.
Global conflicts don’t remain over there anymore in our shrinking world.
In August of 2006 CNN News conducted a poll that was meant to see how the
average American viewed the Hezbollah. The result would leave anyone with
an ounce of political savvy in a state of disbelief.
The poll concluded that forty seven percent of those polled think
Hezbollah is friendly toward America. Leaving aside the generally accepted
idea that our allies’ enemies are our enemies you’ve got to wonder if
those polled have a clue.
Did the pollsters remind those polled that Hezbollah is solidly backed by
Iran. And have those Americans forgotten the Ayatollah Khomeini or the
Iranian hostage crisis? Have they forgotten that Iran is openly and
defiantly bent on creating enriched uranium from its nuclear facilities to
make nuclear bombs with? Have they forgotten all this or did they ever
know it to begin with.
Did those polled forget that between 1983 and 1985 elements of the
Hezbollah were responsible for the bomb that killed over two hundred U. S.
Marines in Beirut? Weren’t they informed that the Hezbollah car bombed the
U. S. Embassy and the embassy’s annex? Did the polled know that nearly
every suicide bomber that claimed the lives of innocent women, children
and tourists at the Israeli border were sanctioned and in some cases paid
for by the Hezbollah? The real question seems to be were they informed of
anything at all.
If those polled attended a class in the area of political science
entitled, “political savvy 101” and were asked only one question to
complete the course how many would pass? The question of course would be
what country Iran would use its nuclear bomb on if it had one. They could
be given multiple choice answers such as 1.America, 2.Israel, 3.duh.
According to the CNN poll one hundred percent of those in that class would
be taking the course over.
Has life in America become so fast paced that we have no time to pay
attention to what is going on elsewhere or doesn’t a “Super Power” need to
give any attention to these serious threats perceived only as isolated
foreign skirmishes and uprisings? Is the pre 9/11 complacency retuning
with a vengeance? It is hard to hit the head of an ostrich from far away
but his body makes a great target. One has to wonder if nature endowed the
bird with just a pinch more wisdom would he keep his head above ground
long enough to hear the gunfire so he could run for cover. Do those polled
need just a pinch more wisdom?
Hezbollah is just as committed to the demise of the United States as it is
to seeing the annihilation of Israel. If nothing else was known about the
Hezbollah except that it is a militant Muslim movement how anyone could
mistake them for a friend to the west is beyond all reason or human
understanding. Are Americans so busy looking for reasons to celebrate the
good times and scream out their heehaws that they can’t hear the ever
deafening sound of those crying out for a jihad?
Will the business or the busyness of America make true the saying that the
hardest thing for any individual, group or nation to survive is its own
success? God forbid.
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