Well up until about a week ago, my no travel list was fairly short: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Nigeria, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, and the Congos (Democratic Republic, Republic). Considering there are 194 countries in the world, not too bad.
The events of the last week would have me adding Israel, Lebanon, and Syria to the list. Admittedly I didn't have any real plans to go to any of these places, and they were definitely towards the bottom of the list.
I don't know enough history to even begin to try and dissect this conflict, so I won't. What I've found interesting over the last week is the shift in media focus. If you picked up a paper today or cruised major media websites you'd find nary a hint of the nuclear issues with Iran, or escalating the missile/nuclear issues with North Korea. History will tell us which of these conflicts is the more important and where we should have focused our attention, but one does have to admire the medias ability to very quickly shift or divert our attention from one part of the world to another. And in reality there is very little that we can do about it. True, with the the Internet there is greater access to search out different points of view, or seek out news stories. The reality is that in general the media has the ability to saturate the market and shift our focus at will.
Will big media help me with two questions: 1) was this the plan all along? and more importantly 2) has anyone else in our governments noticed?
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