The Media cannot win wars - war is won on the ground. The war of ideas comes in second.

The basics first.

War is an extension of politics by another means. This oft quoted line from Clausewitz is relevant as always because it involves humans.

Wars mean imposing ones will on another.

The usual way is death to the other sides’ combatants, occupying their land, and restoring civil order according to the winners requirements. The bottom line is always enforcing the winners way of life, business, and culture.

Since I am a from the western point of view, this usually means when we win we are as kind as we can be, to the point of moral equality and tolerance often taken to a politically embarrassing extreme.

Wars can also end when both sides wear themselves out. The politicians and diplomats then negotiate the end of hostilities. Later the hostilities often take up where they left off.

Israel is fighting for its right to exist in the Middle East, and their war is right on the mark.

The larger and concurrent Islamofascist Muslim war against western culture is also against our western right to exist, and our world war is also on the mark. Yes we are in a world war.

99.99 percent of all Muslims are like most humans. They worship a god, have families and hopes, and work hard for their future. 00.01 percent (about 140,000 I figure) are the ones who we must wage war with. This means killing them to me. Most are not Arabs, by the way. There is no hearts and minds approach with these people. They are willing to die for their cause and we must send them on their way.

Unfortunately for most of us, it will only probably be done 20 or 30 or maybe 100’s (as in Hezbellah) at a time. But this is like interest, it adds up over time.

So has war changed? No. So have people changed? No.

Media today is both big business and national, depending on the country or tribe. China and Iran are a good example of government medias. The American giants are good examples of business medias. The BBC is an example of the combination.

Media humans (script, TV, radio, or internet) today mostly are employees of companies or governments who fail us common citizens in passing on the actual news. Thank goodness for bloggers ability to report the actual news of we humans.

The media today often tries to decide who is right or wrong about a war between peoples, and even tries to dictate ends to human conflict. I imagine many are well intentioned from their places from both the west and the east. I also imagine many in the west have agendas, and that many in the east have government and tribal paid points of view.

But here I depart.

There is no moral equivalency between the western sense of humans and treatment of women, and hope for the future (young men going forward) and the decayed theocracies of the Imans and their tribes.

The omnipresent international demands and media reports, reverberated for Israel to quit its military efforts, in time to save the attacker to regroup and fight another day, have finally fallen on deaf ears in Israel and people like me.

Most of the western media people that I read also write and report as if how the effort comes out from their point of view, especially the mission as they define it, as if what is written will decide the outcome. Who wins their media war is the definition of victory. They have a point of view.

What megalomania.

What moral indifference, or worse, moral ignorance.

Not all people, tribes, nations, or religions are created equal. And some want to dominate the others and are fighting for their cause.

Israel is fighting for its right to exist.

And I believe this western person is also fighting for his and his progenies right to exist.

Words don’t count, in the end. War is war.

When I am defending my right to exist, all these media people are not worth much to me. I assume their salaries are worth much to them.