Gore Vidal - Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace

Perpetual War For Perpetual Peace by Gore Vidal *note this is not the actual book but a lecture* Does anybody remember the rules of cause and effect? Stated simply, it's the principle that every action has a reaction. Pretty basic stuff, really, and empirically verifiable in any number of ways, but what may seem elementary to some may seem like one of those off the wall "round earth" theories to others. So, in the spirit of the advancement of science and in keeping with the general rules of fair play, it appears that it may just be time to send our national press corps for a little refresher course on this subject, as they don't quite seem to grasp the concept. The trouble, fellow citizens, is that it is beginning to appear increasingly certain that the mainstream media seem only able to understand the effect part of the equation, which means that the causes apparently are left to float in some sort of a-historical ether. Much like the coverage of the anti-globalization protests of the past few years, the media has generally only seen fit to deal with the after effects of the Oklahoma City and World Trade Center attacks, while ignoring the underlying causes for why the attacks occurred in the first place. Whereas Tim McVeigh (like Lee Harvey Oswald before him) has been portrayed as a lone maniac bent on evil, Al Queda is written off as the creation of an "axis of evil."