Why does Reason TV give war a thumbs up?

[libertybrewcity]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9TgFSAlEkU&feature=player_embedded

[doodle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9TgFSAlEkU&feature=player_embedded

Because sometimes good ol theology is the best.



“the main thing is that the killing benefits us”

Our political map, with its constant shift to the right, reflects precisely this colonial logic, which has become the logic of our lives: The West is allowed what the natives are not.

Two other Arab uprisings are going on aside from the civil war in Libya. But no one in Washington has called on Bahrain’s government to step down, and Saudi Arabia, which cuts off the hands of thieves, has been allowed to invade the emirate to take part in the suppression there. Protesters are being slaughtered daily in Yemen, and the West is helping. As always, Arab blood, high octane, is on sale.

To claim that this is a double standard is like complaining that a missile has a warhead and a tail. For two decades now, states have been taken apart in the name of “human rights”: Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and now Libya, using human-rights missiles deployed against humans. Western media outlets are already producing a global discourse about “a war with values” and “contradictions between values and strategy,” as if strategy didn’t include “values.”

Once again the West is quoting Homer and dropping business and partnership with Muammar Gadhafi in favor of ratings, oil and especially the use of the machinery of war. The public likes this, until it has to pay in blood and money. After the graves are covered, the mood can change. In general, indifference – the progeny of the malls, reality TV and beach vacations – takes control.

LINK (http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/the-main-thing-is-that-the-killing-benefits-us/)

[rp08orbust]

It's clearly sarcasm.

[Thomas]

sharing lol

[Occam's Banana]

I think a "thumbs up" is supposed to indicate "this won't get the axe" - not "this is a good/desirable thing."
(And conversely, a "thumbs down" means "this will get the axe" - not "this is a bad/undesirable thing.")

Notice that the only thing that gets an unequivocal "thumbs-down" is "NATIONAL PARKS & SITES."

[Matt Collins]

It's clearly sarcasm.
This.