Reality Versus John Gibson

John Gibson writes in his “My Word” column that he wants the next president to have a disdain for what the rest of the world thinks. In defending his derision, Macho man Gibson makes up a few things along the way to distort his neocon world view, however.

Macho Man writes, "The world wanted us to save them from the Soviets. We did. The world wanted us to do something about Saddam. We did, and then the world decided we did a bad thing because we didn't ask their permission for each and every step in doing what needed to be done.” Can anyone else pick out what’s wrong with this?

In his messed up fantasy world where George Bush is a popular president and Iraq was responsible for 9/11, Gibson must have forgotten that we didn’t contain the Soviets all by ourselves. No far from it. We, America, put together the largest and most powerful alliance in human history with NATO. It was a coalition of 12 nations, five of which began the process on their own without American involvement. Throughout the Cold War NATO membership grew and grew, eventually successfully containing the Soviet Union. None of it was done single-handedly, and the successful containment could not have been possible without the strategic diplomacy that made the NATO alliance so effective. Without help from our allies, “we” never would have won the Cold War.

“The world wanted us to do something with Saddam.” Okay, what “world” is Macho Man living in? If I recall correctly the world protested as we “did something with Saddam.” Can he be serious? If anything it was when we did something with Saddam that we went at it alone and not when we saved the world from the Soviets. Gibson obviously has his versions of reality mixed up. Our traditional NATO allies steered clear of the invasion of Iraq, bringing with us Great Britain and a handful of troops from Poland (who was actually a member of the Warsaw Pact, but that’s a different history lesson for Macho Man John Gibson).

Gibson further alludes himself from reality. “As for paying, well, we pay for the defense of the free world. Has anybody in Europe, except for the British, paid anything in the way of defense for their own populations and borders? No. Has Canada bothered to pony up for its own defense? No.” Johnny Boy, Johnny Boy. Just ask anyone who paid for the first Gulf War. It sure wasn’t big bad America. And why would they want to pay for a second Gulf War when nearly the entire world was against it from the get go. Of course they’re not going to pay for our mistakes. We broke, we fix it. How very liberal of you to want someone else to pay your bills.

To think this is the guy who delivers the news to millions of people every night. Not only the news but he also gets to add his own made up fantasy, circle jerk world commentary in with it. What a wonderful system we have going on here in America.