A FOX NEWS cameraman was accosted by Pentagon Police outside the building on Tuesday -- as he was shooting pictures of an arrest being carried out by Virginia State Police on a highway that runs alongside the Pentagon but outside Pentagon property!

The FOX staffer was ordered to turn over the videotape.

When he balked, he was handcuffed.

His camera was immediately seized and the tape was confiscated.

"Is this America!?" demanded a news producer at the network's DC bureau.

"He was subsequently released with his camera but the Pentagon is refusing to return the tape," FOX's Brit Hume explained to viewers.

The nation's top-rated all-news channel is preparing to lodge a formal complaint with officials, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

Hume calls the episode a "disturbing development" which may reflect on the new "restrictive information policies of the Defense Department."

A FOX Source notes: "We still don't have the tape and they haven't given us any indication of when we might expect it -- It makes you wonder who is on it?" Drudge Report - 3/20/2002

[AFI Research (London) - National Press Club Office- Washington, DC - 3/20/2002] Talking to a group of young journalists recently I was asked what phrase encapsulated the lessons learned about global politics, from working in over 85 countries. It was "What goes around comes around". President "Bunker" Bush has no single phrase. He could invent one, as he does weekly. He should take a minute, and consider the one I gave.

During the Inauguration many of his supporters used the term "Reluctant Dauphin" as if the Bush Dynasty ruled France. Today the significance becomes apparent. President Clinton dreamed about being President, all the others saw it as a culmination of a life in politics. George W. sees it as carrying out his Dad's wishes.

Because of his pedigree he has not had enough time in the global mincing machine of world politics, to learn the bitter lessons of "Cause and Effect". Never before have we seen an American President trash the Constitution, at home, and do all possible to mirror Adolf Hitler, and Napoleon in foreign policy. He has forgotten that he is renting the "Most powerful man in the world" status for four years, with an option to retain the title for a further four years, subject to credit rating.

Yes, he can tell the world that nuclear missiles are now pointing at China, Russia, Luxembourg, and South Beach, Miami, or anywhere else for that matter. But two of the four I just mentioned will start changing their policies towards the USA, and the results will be seen further down the road, when George W is back on his ranch, scraping cow dung from his boots.

Consider the Pentagon "Talking Heads" on CNN, who blatantly announce that the generations old doctrine of not using Nuclear weapons in a first strike role no longer applies. That's it George, rip up a few more treaties, and agreements. Hey it is now policy to blast any unarmed country to bits with nuclear weapons if we don't like them. And while we are at it people of the world, "Buy American" we need you to buy our goods and services, because we need the exports to get us out of recession!"

Israel, unlike the United States, has few natural resources, and without trade, and supplies of everything from Oil to Kosher Hot Dogs, will soon starve. It is an overpopulated barren strip of land, drawing sustenance, and life from those around it. It should look at the Kurds, as a case study, and ask itself "What happens when the mighty "Big Stick" changes leadership, policy, and starts focusing on say Taiwan. Consider a pissed-off China, with US nuclear missiles pointing at it ready for a first strike attack, deciding "What the hell" and invading Taiwan. What happens if the Arab nations join together and another Oil crisis occurs, just before US election time, will George be so cocky then? Yes, what happens instead of the Arabs fighting Israel, they decide to starve it, will George W. launch the threatened Nuclear first strike.

George "W" strutted around like Mussolini, declaring a 30% tariff on imported Steel. Working on the philosophy that the rest of the world is "Either with us or against us" he is now appalled that the EU wants to slap $2bn extra tariffs on US textiles and other goods. "Don't they know we are in a recession, what about the fight against terrorism."

George W is starting to learn "Cause and Effect". So are the leaders of the new Afghanistan, seeing the end of the forces from America. "We will drop as many bombs on you as you want, but don't expect us to guard your towns, and infrastructure". This should be a lesson to Turkey, if it allows the US to launch a unilateral attack on Iraq. Whoever takes over the "New World Order" in Iraq, will still be on your borders, long after the B-52s have left.

It is very easy to get engrossed into the daily fog of war, and forget that every action has a reaction, American politicians are transients, and "What goes around comes around"!

Mid-East Realities

www.middleeast.org

Source: http://www.middleeast.org/articles/2002/3/711.htm