Post by buster on Sept 26, 2010 20:20:02 GMT 8
I see that Corregidor hit the news-wires and the Television tonight:
I refer to the ABS-CBN News report about the meeting between President Aquino of the Philippines, and President Obama. - “Both leaders talked about a US assistance in cleaning up an ammunition dump in Corregidor.”
Whether the departure from the truth is deliberate or stupid, I'll let you decide.
What followed the ABS-CBN news blurb on their website is a background, as to how Corregidor is a "key bastion" , “a memorial to the heroism of Filipino and American soldiers during World War II," erc., etc., and a tourist destination.
Yes, all the old "three hour tour" stuff.
So it is Corregidor, then, which is so stocked with unexploded munitions that Uncle Sam is needed to provide resources for its clean up?
Well, the media will have you believe it.
Rather than tell us the truth, are they hanging the label around Corregidor, to tug the heart strings?
The ignorant, and that is 99% of listeners/readers/viewers, were implanted with the idea that Corregidor still has a huge ammunition dump which needs US aid to help clean it up.
Gee, are Sun Cruises going to start offering “Ammunition Dump” Tours?
Not a single word, of course, about Caballo Island.
Presumably, the people really in the know ( by which phrase we can safely exclude much of the media) are aware that the issue is not a whit about Corregidor Island at all, but Caballo Island.
And that none of the "Corregidor" reasons are the slightest bit valid.
Is the US to be shaken-down to pick up the blame for years of US neglect in the way the US has stored ammunition on a sacred memorial, when we all know that not a single bit of this charge is true?
Of course, yes, that's the art of politics.
Hey, who cares if all the details are wrong, and the whole thing is misdirection just send the money fast and we'll worry about the details later.
I refer to the ABS-CBN News report about the meeting between President Aquino of the Philippines, and President Obama. - “Both leaders talked about a US assistance in cleaning up an ammunition dump in Corregidor.”
Whether the departure from the truth is deliberate or stupid, I'll let you decide.
What followed the ABS-CBN news blurb on their website is a background, as to how Corregidor is a "key bastion" , “a memorial to the heroism of Filipino and American soldiers during World War II," erc., etc., and a tourist destination.
Yes, all the old "three hour tour" stuff.
So it is Corregidor, then, which is so stocked with unexploded munitions that Uncle Sam is needed to provide resources for its clean up?
Well, the media will have you believe it.
Rather than tell us the truth, are they hanging the label around Corregidor, to tug the heart strings?
The ignorant, and that is 99% of listeners/readers/viewers, were implanted with the idea that Corregidor still has a huge ammunition dump which needs US aid to help clean it up.
Gee, are Sun Cruises going to start offering “Ammunition Dump” Tours?
Not a single word, of course, about Caballo Island.
Presumably, the people really in the know ( by which phrase we can safely exclude much of the media) are aware that the issue is not a whit about Corregidor Island at all, but Caballo Island.
And that none of the "Corregidor" reasons are the slightest bit valid.
Is the US to be shaken-down to pick up the blame for years of US neglect in the way the US has stored ammunition on a sacred memorial, when we all know that not a single bit of this charge is true?
Of course, yes, that's the art of politics.
Hey, who cares if all the details are wrong, and the whole thing is misdirection just send the money fast and we'll worry about the details later.