W4 Day4

‘Swords fall off as useless; bullets merely cleave the air before an idea whose time has come. It was on such a premise the New World witnessed the birth of the USA.’ In a matter of three centuries we find the same nation being treated by its own Chief as though run out of steam. So he resorts to the tactic of scare mongering, (as I make of the news given herebelow,) in order to make a case for his belligerent policy.
'President Bush portrayed the Iraq war as a battle between the U.S. and al-Qaida on Wednesday and shared nuggets of intelligence to contend Osama bin Laden was setting up a terrorist cell in Iraq to strike targets in America. "Here in America, we are living in the eye of a storm," he said. "All around us, dangerous winds are swirling and these winds could reach our shores at any moment."(AP)
Does the idea of scaring the nation work?
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Gas Raid From Mars
On the night of October 30, 1938 Orson Welles became a celebrity with his realistic broadcast of HG Wells’s ‘War of the Worlds,’. It lasted only half an hour but caused panic from the Atlantic to the West Coast. In Newark in a single block at Heddon Terrace and Hawthorne Avenue more than twenty families rushed out of their houses with wet kerchiefs and towels to flee from what they believed to be was a gas raid. ( extract: New York Times of Oct 31)
President Bush knows from the past how to distract the nation from real issues. Whether he succeeds or not all that energy that he throws into what seems a bottomless well comes again into circulation.
Who is mopping up the loose change of energy the USA is throwing about?
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