Saturday news coverage. I flip between CNN, Euronews and the German national news and this sinking feeling of despair lodges itself in my gut. One channel has Bush and Blair doing the saber rattle jingo two step on a sunny DC afternoon, helicopter and honor guard poignantly placed in the background. The next channel shows Shroeder and Chirac doing the hand wringing peacenik twist and bawl in a drizzling Berlin night in front of Gerry’s new drab middle class digs. By the time I get back to CNN Larry King is rerunning one year’s worth of celeb’s answers to the question of the decade “Where were you when the planes hit?” Every other sentence contains the words “Attack on America.”
Zap……… The Heidelberg debacle.
Zap……… Euronews is covering the poll that shows that a majority of Europeans think that the US foreign policy is largely to blame for 9/11.
Zap……… Israeli security forces are preemptively blowing up a car bomb.
Zap……… The assassination attempt on Karzai. Commentary involves criticism mixed with praise of American security forces.
Zap……… American flags in the wind with the dreadful sight of the North Tower collapsing in the background.
Zap……… Palestinian street urchins throwing stones at armored vehicles with IDF forces on foot in full Kevlar shooting them off with rubber.
Zap……… Some talking head on CNN is mulling over national pride after 9/11.
Zap……… Coverage from Thursday’s meeting between Swedish Premier Persson and Blair to discuss the terrorist threat and EU foreign policy in regards Iraq.
Zap……… Some green party official denouncing the US unwillingness to deal with the greenhouse effect inter-cut with Powell hand waiving at the Earth Summit.
Zap……… The apartment building where the Heidelberg idiots lived and played bomb making.
Zap……… The week in news on a German channel shows the arraignment of the Ryan Air gunman in Stockholm.
Zap……… Swedish father of “illegal combatant” prisoner at Gitmo locks himself up in a cage on the central city square in Stockholm and goes on a hunger strike.
Zap……… German special on flight 93 followed by a memorial for the German nationals killed in the WTC, hardly a word about the over 2 770 other nationals who died.
Zap……… CNN runs another segment vaguely centered on national pride and resolve.
Zap……… Some idiot newscaster on the local channel M-TV elaborates on how to spot a terrorist at the upcoming October Fest, he of course comments that we shouldn’t worry too much since “this is not America.”
Zap……… Rerun of segment with EU President and Danish Premier where the reporter desperately tries to wring a harsh condemnation of US environmental policy from him. He spoils her party by refusing.
Zap……… Iraqi official thrashes the idea of complying with UN resolutions since the US has decided to attack anyway.
Zap……… Heidelberg. Zap……… Gaza. Zap……… 9/11 reruns. Zap……… American flags burning in the ME . Zap……… Blair. Zap……… Chirac. Zap……… Poutin denounces the US Iraq policy. Zap……… Bush and the famous Axis of Evil idiocy rerun. Zap……… US hardware at work in Tora Bora. Zap……… US environmental policy denounced. Zap……… Heidelberg. Zap……… Ryan Air. Zap……… Schroeder.
Aaaaaarrrrghhh……
What in the name of all the piss stupid plague infested lemurs in Madagascar is up? Is it the US against the world now?
What ever fucking happened? A year ago terrorists attacked the free world by murdering some 3 000 people in the US. The whole world reacted as one to fight down this dreadful threat to our (as in every free person in the world) basic rights to freedom and security. A year later the terrorists are winning as the US drifts further and further into a position of opposition to the rest of the world, and not only at the fault of the US.
Has everyone lost their fucking minds on all sides of this story? The Russians, Germans and the French? HELLO even if you don’t agree… come up with some kind of fucking plausible alternative. The Americans? PULHEASE! Yes it was an attack on America, but every time you forget that it was also an attack on the free world you play into the hands of the terrorists. Same thing goes for the dumb fucking Europeans that seem to think that this is an American problem.
Somehow the only people I can even begin to understand right now are the Iraqis and their neighbors who should naturally be less than impressed at the idea of having their backyard turned into a smart bomb fireworks fest once again. That’s just great, I understand the worst psycho regime in the world and I can’t even begin to follow the ideas going on in the heads of my own democratically elected leadership.
Chirac can wipe his ass with the Tricolor and Bush can reciprocate with the Star and Stripes while I’ll just lumber off and piss on the Stars on Blue. The Union Jack, the Russian Federation Flag and the Schwarz Gelb Rot? They need band-aids in Gaza, send those rags right over. The biggest fucking kick in the gut I save for the stupid squirming simpletons that call themselves journalists who are pleasurably rolling around in the nationalistic muck instead of just covering the fucking news.
Dammed! Look at the list of things going on; it’s a global problem. Get it? Global? As in everyone’s problem!
I tried only reading my newspapers this morning…. Same crap in print FUCK!
Sparc