The Christian Science Monitor's entire Editorial Board this week appears to have made a public plea for President Obama to undertake propaganda techniques to brainwash the American public into the levels of fear that allowed the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to be undertaken in the first place.
Their editorial, "Obama Must Better Rally Americans Behind the War in Afghanistan, Pakistan" was a shameless decree against the dignity of the American public and for the effort to perpetuate a culture of fear in this country.
But even more fascinating than the Christian Science Monitor's public call for more propaganda -- or as the editorial calls it, "a higher profile campaign to gin up support" for "reversing the decline in popular support" in order to "resell Americans" on a pro-war stance -- is the audacious insinuation that too many Americans are concerned about "budget cuts and job creation" to be busy fearing Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, it is wrong for Americans to put jobs and finances ahead of pathological fear.
And guess what the tipping point was? Guess what finally worried anyone who still supports these public tax-devouring, life-destroying wars? The fact that so many Americans have been personally and publicly protesting the unconstitutional violation of their rights while traveling through airports. "Many Americans feel less threatened by Al Qaeda these days," the Christian Science Monitor says, "as seen in the backlash against tougher airport screening."
According to the Christian Science Monitor, if you protest being molested in an airport, that's a sure sign that you are not afraid of Al Qaeda. And that's a problem on both fronts.
It also turns out that things are getting scary for the pro-war types because white Americans -- not just Indians or Latinos or Jewish people or Arabs -- put up a protest during the Thanksgiving airport raids against personal privacy.
How far America has come since the days of Woodrow Wilson's Creel Committee -- the Committee on Public Information that used every surreptitious effort it could from April 13, 1917 to August 21, 1919 to reverse the American public's natural aversion to war and conflict into a bomb-fearing, war-supporting nation that would not oppose America's involvement in World War I?
Back in the old days, propaganda wasn't up against Twitter, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein and Julian Assange. Back in the old days, the Christian Science Monitor probably made these kinds of pleas in the backrooms of Washington, not on the front pages of Yahoo News.
It's actually a sign of progress, not to mention desperation. But it sure looks bad for the types of people that seem to almost wish that another terrorist attack would happen on U.S. soil just to scare the public into submission. Shameless.