THE MILITARY "EXPERTS"

Part of the hyping up of the impending war is coming from the television news organizations. They all seem to be signing up a number of ex-military types—what they call their "experts" on warfare. Suddenly it looks like there is an endless line of retired military Generals and Colonels parading through CNN, MSNBC and FOX News programs.

It seems like these guys have nothing better to do—they don’t seem excited or more than just marginally interested in what they’re discussing. It seems that if they weren’t on television, they’d probably be pumping gas at a Shell station outside their gated retirement communities in Orlando or Scottsdale, just to keep busy! These smug supposed experts, who also appear on news talk shows like Nachtman, are introduced by their war credentials—eg: World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Operation Desert Storm, and their military specialty—Green Beret, Signal Corps etc., and seem to be shown deference relative to their rank.

The question in my mind is this: What do they know about what is really going on with the current insanity? I’ve noticed any one of the "experts" is likely to admit that since they have no access to the current leaders of our country, that they really have no clue about what is being decided in the war rooms these days. Although in the past, they may have been privy to high-level decision making, they now are getting their information by watching the same news shows as the audience that is now listening to them.

So the "expertise" of these "experts’ ends up being little more than entertainment. Whatever their past expertise, it holds little water in this new warmed-up ocean we’re swimming in. And the fact that these guys are becoming our current TV stars is not a great sign for the future of our planet.