Sunday, July 20, 2008

Outbreak

When will media be the bolster of truth? Airing everything said isn’t truth; making a note of everything without corroborating credibility is a sin and almost every single broadcast corporation is culpable. I recently watched a movie "The Kingdom". It was a typical movie in a sense that (supposedly) bad guys blew up so-called good guy, then the good-guys went after the bad guys, eradicated them and justice was restored.WOW. How they make it so simple, well, that's a whole different story to be told (maybe later) but what was intriguing to me (in that movie) was the backdrop of the movie. The movie started with a preview of the history when oil was discovered in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, became a fuel source, the oil embargo, 9/11 which means of course AL QAEDA (I know that by now, you can guess the whole story). The whole movie projects as if American are angels and innocent and Al-Qaeda people are the accomplice of the devil, if not the devil themselves, how Americans are a peaceful breed, making the Holy Land their permanent abode, extracting away the resources as they need, not bothering anyone, but HELL! They are doing it ‘cause they need to do it. And the owners of THE BLACK GOLD, the locals, ain’t getting any sort of benefit from it. In fact, American are sitting pretty, enjoying all the luxuries of life they can ever imagine. Now, is that FAIR? Too much injustice always leads to what is happening these days. I don’t mean to justify the acts like suicide bombing or the sort of aggression that prevails in this world now, but before starting to blame anyone, the analysis should be thorough enough to cover the all the bases. By the way, who gave USA the authority to police around anyway?

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