ISIS "Threat" To U.S. National Security Vastly Overblown Or Non-Existent Senior U.S. Counterterrorism And Intelligence Officials Assert Follows Month-Long Public Terror Fueled By Incessant CNN Other Media Repetitive Coverage Exploiting Same Isolated Events Such As Deeply Sick Beheading Of Two American Journalists

        Thursday, 11 September 2014, WASHINGTON, D.C. - Welcome to the new paradigm of "news" (acronym for North, East, West, South) courtesy most obviously of CNN where seemingly every item very effectively makes viewers feel compelled to be sure to return after (or hopefully sit entranced through) incessantly repetitive advertisers' brainwashing "breaks" for morbid fear that should viewers fail to be present for what the odds should have long ago taught them almost certainly just will be yet another exactly the same word-for-word image-for-image similarly "brainwashing" piece that previously has been aired (cabled or whatever) most likely several hundred times already in the past day other than perhaps with a slightly different introduction reflecting the winning personality of the host of the hour be it Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper the man present at all places at all times, Don Lemon or whomever.
       After how many hundred airings does the same segment lose the status of "Breaking News" on CNN which with its ever-growing casual interpretation of the term now seems to blaze it across the bottom of the screen constantly for most anything along with the casual convenient repetition of the term "LIVE" even for items seen days before presumably based on the unlikely argument that CNN lacks the technical capability to remove the term "LIVE" from the piece even once it becomes untrue (immediately), and now in any case failing the above CNN it would seem has resorted to more or less denoting entire news shows as "Breaking News" or at the very least "Developing News" should CNN really not be able to come up with a straight face with anything else sounding more like the commercially invaluable imminent unfolding crisis of the moment.
       In any case as touched on in the below linked article in today's New York Times apart from the apparent commercial benefit to CNN of the above tactics unfortunately for example as in the case at hand of the repetitive flooding literally thousands of times of Americans' and the world's television screens with the same images of two deeply pathologically depraved ISIS beheadings of American journalists unfortunately this has the presumed effect of serving exactly the purpose of aspiring terrorists to panic viewers into absorbing these two incidents rather than isolated as into what then become in viewers' minds rather cumulatively into virtually thousands of separate acts greatly distorting the presumed reality of at least the present American situation including unfortunately vastly inflating any immediacy of any threat to hundreds of millions of Americans such that they mistakenly perceive this scant totally incomplete information as any kind of actual proof of a infinitely powerful ISIS of unlimited reach which senior American officials increasingly have come to conclude it is not.
       Admit it or not CNN thus becomes the necessary tool of the vast dissemination of the gratification of distortions of a propaganda machine which without CNN would be essentially non-existent. Having stated this the Ninth Amendment editorial board however emphasizes it is appropriate, necessary and essential to expose such atrocities most widely to the extent that it makes a nation and its people accurately informed, rightly on guard and justly enraged at the sheer unmitigated evil which has been perpetrated against its citizens although this should not extend to the counterproductive fostering of uncontrolled terror which ultimately interferes with people's ability to adopt the most rational and lethally effective strategies in response.
       Readers in no way should interpret this as a downplaying of the significance of known horrific acts of heinous murders of Americans be it of a couple or hundreds by ISIS and most especially all kidnapping, torture and/or murder of innocent human beings who moreover as journalists have with their families and loved ones made huge personal sacrifices and risked their lives every day exercising their rights of free speech and the press in the extreme so that all of us comfortably at home in safety may stay informed of vital developments the world over that inform our opinions and help properly guide our governments' policies every day. These journalists are heroes and be it the work of special forces or whomever those who commit these abominations must be hunted down like rabid dogs and should they make it out alive be tried as the war and/or genocidal human rights criminals mass murdering terrorists that they are.
       The proof of this effect on Americans is addressed more extensively for interested readers in the New York Times article linked to below which documents the huge shift in public opinion on the threat of ISIS in the past month not only among a vulnerable population of average Americans but extending to those in serious government leadership positions as well. Most notably Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel apparently has been caught up in the hysteria although President Obama has refrained from describing the ISIS threat to American domestic national security as "imminent".
       However on reading the article in its entirety readers may draw comfort or not depending on their assessment of the individuals involved from the fact that current and former top U.S. counterterrorism, intelligence and Homeland Security officials including those with vast Al Qaeda experience in no uncertain terms in most cases describe the present ISIS threat to U.S. national security as "non-existent" or virtually so. In fact the main concern of many now is to "tamp down" the media-manipulated "terror" of United States citizenry such that decision-makers may step back and give thoughtful and deep consideration to actions which as we long ago have learned could lead to all kinds of unintended consequences including some that are more dangerous in many complex ways ultimately to U.S. regional and national security interests than those the U.S. actually would achieve by "eradicating" ISIS. This could be expected experts say also to lay the groundwork (or rather trap) for another "yearslong" U.S. combat presence in the Middle East just at the time the U.S. finally had hoped to extricate itself from some of the remaining vestiges of the Cheney-Bush debacle which started in a matter of hours but has taken well over a decade to even come close to ending.
       Perhaps most telling an omen it has come to the attention of the Ninth Amendment's editorial board that Dick "Pigheart" Cheney whom sources frankly believed was dead (as in not just the walking kind either) has in past days made a very rare appearance before a closed-door group of House Republicans whom he urged not to walk away from the Middle East but encouraged increased involvement without specifically mentioning ISIS. Any advice comes from Dick "Pigheart" Cheney after his head spins and he emits green projectile vomit and in our humble opinion it is time to run, not walk, as far as possible from anything he recommends or anywhere he goes, especially in which he participates or offers the services of one of his latest renamed gang of mercenaries, felons and as yet unconvicted (or escaped) criminal killers and murderers from whose serious misdeeds he stands to profit whether by more atrocities and murders or just another tired scheme to rip off the United States Government from which he already has profited so handsomely. Luckily in this case the Republican group reportedly humored him with his meeting but at least publicly said they paid his words little heed indeed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/world/middleeast/struggling-to-gauge-isis-threat-even-as-us-prepares-to-act.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=HpBlogHeadline&module=first-column-region&region=top-neaws&WT.nav=top-news&_r=w

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