| Skybird |
08-01-20 04:42 PM |
Have just watched "The Post" by Spileberg, about the release of the Pentagon papers 1971, proving the cheating and betraying of four (!) US presidents over the US attempt to push the US into a war that the public was notoriously lied over to.
Reminds of Reagan in South America, Bush in Iraq 2003, and Trump'S war against the media in general. Considering the general war the WH is waging since many years (that includes Bush, Clinton, Obama and Trump) against free press and "sources", a topical movie.
I have red it before somewhere, it seems to be a historical quote indeed, and I heard it being said by one of the protagonists in this movie, too: 10% of the growing war in Vietnam was about helping South Vietnam, 20% was about fighting the commies, and 70% were about delaying the confession to the public that the war was unwinnable form beginning on, and was based on lying to the public. Four presidents participated in this lie. And it was known from beginning on.
Nixon. Trump. Two psychiatrically conspicuous rabied dogs in the WH. The movie serves well as a warning reminder. Not so much about an imminent war, but a dangeorus way of how the top of the state tries to attack free media. As the film puts it in one line: "Free press must serve not the state, but the people". Without sources trusting the press to protect them, press becomes meaningless.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrXlY6gzTTM |
