So I read today that Congress is on the way to passing a bill to prevent the military from using propaganda.
Hello, the military is SUPPOSED to promote itself. It´s SUPPOSED to make it´s country proud of it. It´s SUPPOSED to focus on its successes more than its failures. It´s SUPPOSED to encourage optimism. That´s what makes the military great.
So stupid, the only reason they´re doing this is because they´re frustrated that they feel helpless against the White House administration and they want to take it out on the military instead. In their search for a place to apply pressure they´ve made the mistake of grouping military propaganda (which is good) with the blatant lies and misleading information that the Executive branch is giving out (which is bad).
This is just like when they were grilling General Petraeus, asking pointed political questions that they had no business asking a military commander, just because they wanted somebody to place the blame on for the presidential group´s mistakes. The military is the last group to keep their head out in the open because they are confident in their own virtue and they become the targets of the weak good guys because of it!
What they need to do is apply a vacuum instead of pressure, in order to suck out the corruption. But I think they don´t have enough faith for that.
This is the kind of stuff that gives the military good reason to engage in a coup -- when the self-righteous are not righteous enough to stop the corruption, but instead feed it. Time to wipe out the corrupt AND the incompetent.
Hello, the military is SUPPOSED to promote itself. It´s SUPPOSED to make it´s country proud of it. It´s SUPPOSED to focus on its successes more than its failures. It´s SUPPOSED to encourage optimism. That´s what makes the military great.
So stupid, the only reason they´re doing this is because they´re frustrated that they feel helpless against the White House administration and they want to take it out on the military instead. In their search for a place to apply pressure they´ve made the mistake of grouping military propaganda (which is good) with the blatant lies and misleading information that the Executive branch is giving out (which is bad).
This is just like when they were grilling General Petraeus, asking pointed political questions that they had no business asking a military commander, just because they wanted somebody to place the blame on for the presidential group´s mistakes. The military is the last group to keep their head out in the open because they are confident in their own virtue and they become the targets of the weak good guys because of it!
What they need to do is apply a vacuum instead of pressure, in order to suck out the corruption. But I think they don´t have enough faith for that.
This is the kind of stuff that gives the military good reason to engage in a coup -- when the self-righteous are not righteous enough to stop the corruption, but instead feed it. Time to wipe out the corrupt AND the incompetent.