One Man's Military-Industrial-Media Complex - Series - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex
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The president of NBC News, Steve Capus, said in an interview that General McCaffrey was a man of honor and achievement who would never let business obligations color his analysis for NBC
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This comment reminds me of how difficult it is to influence America's "policy agenda". So long as people like McCaffrey are held up as exemplars of America's moral self we will never get away from the "colonialising" militarism that characterizes America's current policy agenda. Indeed, one might wonder whether there is any wisdom in opposing such malarky, given that in one way or another we all live in Mother Earth's "living arrangement". Some are stronger, some less strong, and what counts, in the end, is that our lives should be lived in harmony with Mother Earth's living arrangement. See TAO Walker.
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General McCaffrey did in fact emerge as a tough critic of Mr. Rumsfeld, describing him as reckless and incompetent
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This article might well be sub-titled "the instrumentalization of an American hero". General Barry McCaffrey a career military officer who built a distinguished career by "playing according to the rules" was coerced by his political hierarchy (aka Donald Rumsfeld and the "Office of Special Operations" set up in the Pentagon to manage information on the build-up to the Iraq war) to become a mouth-piece for the Bush "policy agenda". As such, McCaffrey's experience either points to how weak a good man is when stripped of his group status, or how a weak man General McCaffrey is.