Reddit reviews Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
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there is truth in this statement, but at the same time, there are many out there who are also doing unbelievable, excellent work right now.
For example, these people are serious ass-kickers: Matt Taibi, Jane Mayer, Glenn Greenwald, Amy Goodman, Thomas Ricks, Nicholas Kristof, Steve Coll, Seymor Hersh, Jeremy Scahill, Dana Priest, James Bamford, Thomas Frank, Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Naomi Klein, Robert Sheer, Stephen Kinzer, Nir Rosen, Robert Fisk, Chris Hedges, Charles Bowden...the list goes on and on.
I think a serious case could be made that the U.S. has many of the best journalists in practice today. This is a very impressive list, as far as I'm concerned and shows that there is in fact a hell of a lot of great work being done by U.S. journalists. This is not to say that they get a fair hearing from the corporate media, however...
For further proof on BushCo incompetence, Imperial Life in the Emerald City is also a fantastic read. It covers the coalition provisional authority and the early days of Bush's nation building attempt. Pretty much anything that was possible to fuck up, was.
http://www.amazon.com/Fiasco-American-Military-Adventure-Iraq/dp/159420103X/
http://www.amazon.com/Imperial-Life-Emerald-City-Inside/dp/1400044871/
(Aside from the Saudi regime) do "muslims" have their hands on a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons, trillions in wealth, their hands deep into every crevice of the US government and bureaucracy, and maintain (at least) two foreign military occupations?
Answer, no.
There are very specific and identifiable persons and groups who pose a direct threat to global peace, the viability of the US as a state under the rule of law and general human freedom - the list is long and well known (take practically any member of the last regime all the way down to the junior political appointee in the Green Zone) and continues to this day from Newt, to Palin, to Kochs, etc. ad nauseum.
If you refuse to believe these fanatics, and the sources I have pointed to above are not specific enough for you, then perhaps when Bradley Manning is released from his dungeon he can help correct your thinking.
Sometimes problems are real, specific and identifiable - choosing to ignore them does not make them go away.