UK - 9/11 - five years on and we're not all Americans now

The London Times US Editor Gerard Baker, takes a look at how world opinion has turned against America since 9/11. In doing so, Baker leaves out some of the most important underlying fundementals.

Baker sets the scene immedately after the 9/11 attacks, the "we are all Americans now" phase and ends up with the world hating America.

I'm not sure which underlying fundemental he left out is more important, so for now let's start with this. Nowhere in his article, not once, does Baker use the word "Muslim". The greatest transformation of the world and world opinion against the worlds only superpower revolves around Islam and Muslims but Baker fails to address the issue. How could Baker write an article about 9/11, its aftermath which includes 3/11, Bali, 7/7, 21/7, the recent foiled attacks in Britain and the failed attack in Germany and not mention Muslims and Islam?

Likewise, nowhere in his article does Baker mention the media's role in all of this. The gravest charge leveled at the White House, the one in which the world's anti-war rallying call became "Bush lied, people died", has been proven to be a lie. Worse, the media, at least the reporters involved, the person behind the scandal and the prosecutor in the case, all new 3 years ago that it was a lie. So biased has the media coverage been that the two top men at the BBC were forced to resign. The BBC's own Iraq defence correspondent reported that the BBC was lying in its coverage in Iraq. In the US, CBS and Dan Rather used forged documents in an attempt to smear Bush and steal the last election. Eason Jordon of CNN was likewise forced to resign when he was caught alleging US forces targeted jounalists without and evidence. Newsweek fabricated a story alleging US forces desecrated the Koran at Gitmo which sparked Muslim riots around the world. Many died. The list is far too endless to post them all here. See here and here for more.

I'm not blaiming the media for everything but the media has huge sway over public opinion and the left wing media has been anti-American for a long time.

Baker then makes his biggest mistake by claiming that the root causes of terrorism is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That conflict, like many around the world, is merely a rallying point for Muslim terrorists. If it wasn't that conflict any would do. And he doens't mention that there is never going to be a resolution to that conflict as long as the Palestinians maintain that Israel must cease to exist.

Baker goes on to list the things he says led to world opinion changing against America. But it's also important to point out what he leaves out. al Qaeda no longer have a training ground in Afghanistan and the country has been pretty much rid of the Taleban thus allowing the first democratically elected government in their history. Likewise Iraq has been freed of a dictator and is on the road to democracy. And like the Democrats in America he says Iraq turned out to be a paper tiger and America looked like a bully. Not mentioned is the fact that these same Democrats, along with most of the worlds best intellignece agency's claimed Iraq had WMD's. Further, the WMD's that the UN documented but went missing have yet to be found.

Baker then goes on to note how America slowly changed and the changes that were brought about. Again, unsaid is how the left wing media played an important role in all of this. More importantly, left unsaid is how this proves America's form of government works so well. The President decides on a course of action, someone thinks that's wrong and challenges him in court. The Supreme court then decides the President was indeed wrong and reverses his actions.

Baker then makes observations about America's religious zealots. A bit rich since he fails to even mention Muslims, who are at the heart of the worlds terrorism today and must be the epitome of religious zealousness.

There's much more so read the whole thing.

After writing this, for me the most important thing Baker left out, is the left wing media's role in all of this. Allways reporting the bad news from Afghanistan and Iraq and never the good news, the lies about both those wars, the trumpeting of charges against our troops in those wars and the media's downplaying thier exoneration, the lies in the media's coverage of Katrina - the rapes and murders that didn't happen in the Superdome - failing to report the mayor failed to use the buses at his disposal to evacuate those without transport - using the race card when the demographics showed afterword that blacks and whites suffered equally, the lies, spin and fabrications of the BBC, Reutersgate, Fauxtography and the staged and fake photos of Lebanon - it's and endless list.

America's not the bad guy in all of this, the left wing media is.