http://samsonblinded.org/blog/ukrainian-counterrevolution.htm A Machiavellian Perspective on the Middle East Conflict Sat, 19 May 2012 18:30:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/ukrainian-counterrevolution.htm/comment-page-1#comment-5 maria Sat, 01 Apr 2006 09:49:04 +0000 http://samsonblinded.org/blog/?p=17#comment-5 Your comment on Ukrania is very interesting. You don't wat to know how the whole thing was covered by the press here, in Spain !!! You cannot imagine all the fight-for-freedom extravaganza (and handy clichés, hey, jourmalists are not experts in literature, no need to be creative!). The thing is I am mighty frightened of nationalism. And do we know about it in Spain!! I'm also astonished by the degree of interest any nationalistic movement seems to excite in USA. Can somebody, please, explain this intense interest to me? I really, really don't get it. Nationalism is one of the things that makes the Middle East scenario even more complicated. Americans, and why not? Europeans too, don't like complicated things. For them, the world should be written in black and white, but even if it's not, they manage to apply their "political daltonism" to just about everything. Journalists play this game just as willingly. Take the Middle East. Why waste time and money with complications when you can have the Arabs victims/villains-Israeli victims/villains readily made explanation for everything? (of course the fluctuation victim/villain is subject to change according to need). They impose policies on the area based on that, and the people who get caught in the middle are the real victims.....While we are dealt with as a bunch of stupid cows by journalists and political commentarists. I'm sick of it!!! Your comment on Ukrania is very interesting. You don’t wat to know how the whole thing was covered by the press here, in Spain !!! You cannot imagine all the fight-for-freedom extravaganza (and handy clichés, hey, jourmalists are not experts in literature, no need to be creative!). The thing is I am mighty frightened of nationalism. And do we know about it in Spain!! I’m also astonished by the degree of interest any nationalistic movement seems to excite in USA. Can somebody, please, explain this intense interest to me? I really, really don’t get it. Nationalism is one of the things that makes the Middle East scenario even more complicated. Americans, and why not? Europeans too, don’t like complicated things. For them, the world should be written in black and white, but even if it’s not, they manage to apply their “political daltonism” to just about everything. Journalists play this game just as willingly. Take the Middle East. Why waste time and money with complications when you can have the Arabs victims/villains-Israeli victims/villains readily made explanation for everything? (of course the fluctuation victim/villain is subject to change according to need). They impose policies on the area based on that, and the people who get caught in the middle are the real victims…..While we are dealt with as a bunch of stupid cows by journalists and political commentarists. I’m sick of it!!!

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