Jon Stewart says...

Dear Mausam,

Following is the excerpt from Bill Moyers's interview of Jon Stewart(You can watch the full interview here ). Jon Stewart is the host of Daily Show, which has become a cult here in US. It is everybody's perception that youngsters get their political viewpoint about the current political tussle from his "Daily Show". Jon Stewart finds humor from various misadventures of govt and the world around. George Bush is his favourite bunny and target of his numerous jokes.

In this particular segment of the interview, Jon Stewart explains strategy of Bush administration in explaining about the Iraq war to american public.

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JON STEWART: You know, one of the things that I do think government counts on is that people are busy. And it's very difficult to mobilize a busy and relatively affluent country, unless it's over really crucial-- you know, foundational issues. That come sort of sort of a tipping point.

BILL MOYERS: War? War?

JON STEWART: But war that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country. I think that's why they're so really — here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."

So, there's a disconnect there between — you're telling me this is fight of our generation, and you're going to increase troops by 10 percent. And that's gonna do it. I'm sure what he would like to do is send 400,000 more troops there, but he can't, because he doesn't have them. And the way to get that would be to institute a draft. And the minute you do that, suddenly the country's not so damn busy anymore. And then they really fight back, and then the whole thing falls apart. So, they have a really delicate balance to walk between keeping us relatively fearful, but not so fearful that we stop what we're doing and really examine how it is that they've been waging this.

Jon Stewart you really bring about a clear prespective to a situation. Hats off to you. Keep entertaining us and enlightening us.

Regards,
Ajj Kaim