> He is not interested in uncovering the truth, he is not even trying to appear balanced
I wouldn't necessarily say that. I don't think he deliberately excludes any facts from his reporting - though his interpretations and commentary are often very odious.
> In order to understand the difference try to imagine how much more disgusting the above sentence would be if those car bombs were intentionally set by the Americans to murder the Iraqi civilians.
Well, the Americans used two nuclear devices to murder tens of thousands of the Japanese civilians. Not much remorse on the societal scale to this day (even though by now it is pretty much established that Japan by that time was a spent force, the bombs were mostly intended to impress Stalin and major cities were selected to maximize the body count).
Don't get me wrong, I find all kinds of terrorism equally disgusting, but if you look around you are gonna' see a lot of support for whomever this population or that views as the "good guys", no matter how much terror those good guys engage in. Look no further than Baruch Goldstein, for instance.
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Re: FYI
Date: 2006-03-16 08:32 am (UTC)Not everything.
> He is not interested in uncovering the truth, he is not even trying to appear balanced
I wouldn't necessarily say that. I don't think he deliberately excludes any facts from his reporting - though his interpretations and commentary are often very odious.
> In order to understand the difference try to imagine how much more disgusting the above sentence would be if those car bombs were intentionally set by the Americans to murder the Iraqi civilians.
Well, the Americans used two nuclear devices to murder tens of thousands of the Japanese civilians. Not much remorse on the societal scale to this day (even though by now it is pretty much established that Japan by that time was a spent force, the bombs were mostly intended to impress Stalin and major cities were selected to maximize the body count).
Don't get me wrong, I find all kinds of terrorism equally disgusting, but if you look around you are gonna' see a lot of support for whomever this population or that views as the "good guys", no matter how much terror those good guys engage in. Look no further than Baruch Goldstein, for instance.