The Politics of Revenge and Hatred

Two news stories caught my attention this week , and in part explains why I did not turn on my TV for an entire month , and by choice avoid all other mediums of the corrupted and bias global conglomerate media empires. It can be depressing indeed, and often borders on state or corporate manipulation , that if Karl Marx was alive today and faced with the choice of categorizing organize religion, or the mass media as ‘the opiate of the people,’ religion would have obtained a distant second I am certain.
News of Britain’s possible complicity in the early release of Al-Megrahi a former Libyan terror convict due to a wink , wink deal between both countries threatens to shake the sensibilities of a few outraged families of Pan Am Flight 103 plane bombing of 259 victims for a while . http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/22/britain-under-pressure-to_n_265918.html
Nothing new here some skeptics would say, as this just confirmed what many including myself suspected when Libya initially decided to come clean by acknowledging their complicit role in the affair, as well as it’s seemingly erratic leader deciding to halt his quest to being the second Islamic nation beside Pakistan to defy the UN and most of the wishes of international community and try to acquire nuclear technology towards building an atomic bomb.
The other story was the first time interview and apology by former convict William Calley for his role in the My Lai Vietnam massacre that resulted in the murder of 22 innocent people in 1968.
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/story/813820.html
Back then Calley claimed like Hitler’s Nazi disciples to be following orders. I am certain that if pressed , this Libyan terrorist with a few months to live due to ill health would also admit that he was doing the same as he basked in the inexplicable glory of a heroes welcome to Tripoli. The irony here also is that Calley was sentenced to life , but paroled by the army to live a life of peace in the South .Just think Tom Ridge finally admitting after the fact that his Homeland Security terror alert were a hoax to aid his Commander in Chief and Christian MBA President George W. Bush. Tell us something we did not know in real time Ridge – like when you are not trying to promote a book.
http://www.kfsm.com/news/sns-ap-us-ridge-terror-alert,0,3317204.story
There are those that still want to believe that the former President was a failure , as a result of the economic woes of the country , and it’s links to the Iraq and Afghan global war on terror, but that’s because many still do not appreciate how like their British counterparts and cousins , Americans are able to benefit from war and evil . Need we say Black water?
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090817/scahill2
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0811-20.htm

Do you think that lessons can be learnt by the Obama Administration as they too continue to stage the two prong wars on citizens of both unfortunate , overwhelmed countries ? The politics of deception , revenge, and hatred can be very deep and costly indeed. We know by now why those we label as evil commit them , do we however have the courage to figure out why seemingly good folks do the same?