Balance in the media… not.
[Where’s the quote from the non-right wing think tank? Where’s the quote from the pro-peace people? Answer: the right-wing is organized, and has conscientiously built up contacts with the media, so that even a relatively “left”-oriented international publication like the Guardian quotes them by default. This is what the Commonweal Institute aims to fix. -Thomas]
Analysis
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Pentagon build-up reaches unstoppable momentum
Julian Borger
Tuesday December 31, 2002
The Guardian
The Bush administration insists that no decision has yet been taken on whether to go to war, while it waits for results of UN weapons inspections under way in Iraq. But most observers believe that only a radical move by Baghdad - such as a confession to stockpiling weapons of mass destruction - or a dramatic worsening of the North Korean crisis can stop an invasion.
“Nothing is inevitable, but the logic of the situation points towards a war sometime in February,” said Gary Schmitt, the head of Project for a New American Century, a conservative thinktank with close links to the administration.
“It’s very hard for a country to mobilise for war, and not to go for war without a very serious reason. If you signal to the world that you’re serious, and you don’t do anything, then you’re saying you’re not a serious country.”
