A warlord culture incompatible w/nat'l unity. Afghanistan? No, Chicago!

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The Chicago Way by Kimberley Strassel
Using Malone's dialogue from The Untouchables, Strassel says "What is a little novel is the public and bare-knuckle way in which the Obama team is waging these campaigns against the other side." ****The other side is Fox, Humana, the Chamber of Commerce, Chrysler bondholders, the State of Arizona (to silence Sen. Jon Kyl), Sens. Bennett and Alexander and others. This isn't necessarily smart: "the corporate community is realizing that playing nice doesn't guarantee safety...health execs signed up only to remain pinatas...unions-now running their ads against Obamacare-haven't been targeted...If the choice is cooperate and get nailed, or oppose and possibly win, some might take that bet...many Americans voted for this president in thrall to his vow to bring the country together...voters might just notice."//
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Fox WarsThe Obama administration wants to delegitimize any significant dissent. by Charles Krauthammer
...White House aides openly told Politico that they’re engaged in a deliberate campaign to marginalize and ostracize recalcitrants, from Fox to health insurers to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce...We have norms, Madisonian norms... its defense against tyranny, requires the contest between factions or interests....Seeking to deliberately undermine, delegitimize, and destroy is not Madisonian. It is Nixonian.... Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical — and that doesn’t even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.Fox and its viewers ... need no defense. Defend Fox compared to whom? To CNN — which recently unleashed its fact-checkers on a Saturday Night Live skit mildly critical of President Obama, but did no checking of a grotesquely racist remark CNN falsely attributed to Rush Limbaugh? Defend Fox from whom? ...Defend Fox from the likes of Anita Dunn? She’s been attacked for extolling Mao’s political philosophy in a speech at a high-school graduation. But the critics miss the surpassing stupidity of her larger point: She was invoking Mao as support and authority for her impassioned plea for individuality and trusting one’s own choices. Mao as champion of individuality? Mao, the greatest imposer of mass uniformity in modern history, creator of a slave society of a near-billion worker bees wearing Mao suits and waving the Little Red Book?
The White House communications director cannot be trusted to address high schoolers without uttering inanities. She and her cohorts are now to instruct the country on truth and objectivity?//
***At first the other news outlets did nothing, happy that a potent competitor seemed to be disadvantaged. Now they're starting to rebel, remembering remarks from the Nazi era:
"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
"Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
"Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.
"Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
"Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up." The author was Martin Niemöller, a German pastor imprisoned by Hitler from 1937 to 1945.***
****In discussing corruption in New Jersey, a commentator remarked that NJ was the most corrupt state with the exception of Illinois. Otherwise, a gratuitous reference to Illinois but the standard, nevertheless.****