Originally Posted by Jason Marcel

The TV media in America is a bunch of lazy asses who forgot to question things before the run-up to both wars, took little or no time informing the public about the fact that America tore up international agreements such the ABM treaty, Kyoto, and the agreements that had been made with North Korea, which saw them dismantle over half of their reactors. The lazy TV media still hasn't bothered to inform Americans that little progress was made during the so-called "surge", where militants all over Iraq were put on the American payroll, which has been effective at decreasing violence, but completely ineffective at making any political progress there. Like every other decision so far in Iraq, it's lose-lose.

The media isn't tough enough, and they bore the hell out of me by covering every single important issue the same way: 1) Headline, 2) Little Analysis, 3) Talking head from the left; Talking head from the right. What we're left with is always more questions, fewer answers, and rigid ideology and stupidity instead of common sense and logical questions, like, "So you put your huge military in Afghanistan; How do you know whose on your side or not? How does the military gather intelligence? Go knocking cave to cave?". We should have started there, because what we ended up doing was paying militias to hand over "terrorists" to us, in exchange for money, meanwhile, all the so-called "terrorists" they handed over were always militants in opposing tribes who were not necessarily terrorists at all. And over 100 innocent Afghanis have been tortured to death by us, with no good information gleaned from them, and no evidence of their guilt.

The TV media in America is just one component of the fabric of America that is falling apart and making everybody more stupid today. In polls now, Americans are feeling safer than anytime since 9/11. But of course, that's not because America is actually safer, it's because it's culture has ADD. We're headed down the path of getting hit again, but instead of investing in technology to inspect more than just 5% of all containers coming to America, the people decided they wanted a tax cut instead.

The media has it's head in the sand, along with many people, while America is on it's way to receiving more "blowback" for it's misguided foreign policy. We're fooling ourselves to think we're safer now.