Enough is enough Part III: It's never enough...

Well it seems that Andrew Sullivan is taking the Islamictoon conspiracy seriously now, http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/, yet I still haven't seen too much in the regular press about it. He says:

"Maybe if they'd covered the murders of von Gogh and Fortuyn more aggressively they'd have a better idea of what's going on; and stared down this intimidation. The whole business reminds me of the NYT's coverage of the Nazis in the 1930s. They didn't get the threat then. They don't get it now. "

Sullivan touches on some of the problems inherent in this when he talks about the media not covering the Van Gogh murders, yet that's only the cusp of the situation. It's not enough to show how decitful and violent some Anti-Western Islamic fundamental groups are--I mean let's face it; the West views the entire Middle East as a giant Anti-Western Islamic Fundamenal organization--but what makes the Western media toothless is that it hasn't addressed any news of substance and gave the West after 9/11 a blank check to do anything in the name of patriotism. The didn't cover the Downing Memo, the Valerie Plane leak, or the lack of evidence for going to war in Iraq. They replaced real news with Bradgelina and tabloid journalism and in the process lost their teeth, and developed a severe guilt complex. Now, instead of exposing the issue, they feel the need to asuage Musilm intrests because they know some of the situation that the Islamic world finds themselves in stems from their inaction. The US government checked in our IOUs to have our little war and now that it has (both literally and figuratively) blown up in their faces they know they're treading on thin ice. What we have left, is a stubborn right unwilling to compromise, a flaccid left, who's too busy apologizing for the right's mistakes to stand up for anything, and a media between them that's too busy acting as a propoganda machine for each side to do any actual reporting.

I know I've said this till I'm blue in the face, but I'll say it again. The West has made many mistakes in our foreign relations policies, and many of the problems and issues we are facing today are the results of past errors. These dummy dictators we've propped up over there (Saudi Arabia anyone?) are now, much like another dictator we backed named Manuel Norieaga, refusing to play ball with us. But because of our "addiction to oil," we have to play their game, and the result are these backward conspiracy's and closed door deals that raise extremism and reduce moderation. Is this whole Islamictoon problem something created by a Anti-Western Islamic front? More than possibly it now seems a reality--but the only way to defuse the issue is for the press to do their jobs on both sides of the field. They must expose the story on the right and the left. The ethics of polarize and divide have gone on long enough, and they only way to correct the mistakes of the past is to act properly now.