MSNBC and Laura Bush Discover Pain

     The United States practices a heavy-handed approach in attempting to deal with Central American refugees trying to cross into this country--they escape violence in their own countries, places like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, nations screwed by U.S. foreign policy for many decades in the past.
     On "liberal" news network MSNBC, the Trump administration side of this issue is held up for scrutiny and condemnation, while the behavior of the U.S. toward Latin America for about two centuries is ignored.  Ronald Reagan's policy toward left wing movements in Nicaragua and El Salvador, for instance, are unmentioned, unmentionable to those who don't want to criticize systemic brutality directed at the poor of Latin America.  Reagan's administration armed and encouraged death squads in El Salvador, armed and encouraged terrorists called Contras in Nicaragua, supported right wing military dictatorships in Guatemala responsible for the disappearances of thousands of citizens.
     Now, Trump's "separation of children from their parents" at the Mexico-U.S. border earns a just condemnation from much of the U.S. press.  Little children are currently kept in "detention centers"--they're actually, in effect, jails.  This is supposedly done to protect them from having to go back to where they came from with their parents, who were, the reasoning goes, irresponsible in bringing them to America without the means (passports and worthwhileness as human beings) to get into this country.
     These Latin American families flee chaos and violence at home, in countries that've been fucked with by the United States for decades.  Drugs cartels are blamed for the violence, and although there's  some truth to that, a drug cartel can best take root in a society where there's a vacuum in fair and just governmental order, order in these countries destroyed by U.S. foreign policy, by righteous bastards like Ronald Reagan who made a regular practice of punishing the people of Latin America for wanting change from vicious dictatorships supported by the United States.
     Laura Bush, wife of George W., has offered her viewpoint in a published opinion piece.  She's "heartbroken" at the sight of the little children separated from their parents.
     Irony meter here is at ten.
     Laura Bush, during the eight years of her husband's presidency, never once expressed sorrow and empathy for the countless thousands of children separated from their parents in Iraq and Afghanistan, parents killed by U.S. military might and by sectarian violence caused by her husband's decision to invade Iraq.  She apparently has no idea that a hundred or more children in Yemen die every die because of Saudi Arabia's genocidal war there, a war supported by the United States.  Laura Bush hasn't said a thing about Palestinian children who have recently lost their parents and siblings to Israeli snipers' gunfire.
     Fuck you Laura Bush.
     Her supposed humanity and compassion only get stirred when it's an issue involving the decisions of Donald Trump, a politician she and her in-laws are opposed to.  This failure to see the whole picture extends, as well, to MSNBC and CNN commentators and anchors, and to those bosses of theirs who pull their strings.  Chris Hayes of MSNBC compares this latest Trump outrage to the president's reaction to the White Supremacy rally in Charlottesville last year.  He talks about a "pattern" in Trump's behavior.  I see a pattern in Chris Hayes's behavior, an obsession with inconsequential bullshit: He doesn't seem to know that there's a country called Yemen, and his lack of awareness of Flint, Michigan, is truly remarkable, considering his friend and colleague, Rachel Maddow ("Number one in cable news") did a story a few years ago about Flint that garnered her deserved praise.  She hasn't done anything else with the still relevant Flint story, having turned her attention almost entirely to Trump-bashing and Russiagate, two issues that will not win the presidency for the Democrats in 2020, but will continue to make Rachel Maddow a rich woman.
     Both Hayes and Maddow didn't bother to report anything about the 2016-2017 Dakota Access Pipeline protests that involved mercenaries, state police behaving like stormtroopers, massive numbers of injuries including a woman whose arm was blown off.
     But Trump!  All of a sudden, because it fits with the line acceptable to the corporate powers that be, MSNBC and its toadies can get outraged about the children separated from their parents at the border, while continuing to ignore the plight of Yemeni children.
     Sorry for sounding like such an asshole, but I'm simply asking the question, Suffering children are suffering children, no matter what their nationality, right?  They should be helped entirely apart from the political and financial agendas of power brokers and newsmen and -women misrepresenting reality every minute of every day.

                                                                            Vic Neptune