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Well too bad. I don't much stock at all in instant dismissal of evidence because of the apparent predilections of the messenger, especially with regard to Syria, about which it seems to be a particularly widespread mechanism that allows people to stay in their comfortable bubble and not even look at anything they know they won't like. It's fair enough that some people's agenda make one suspicious about how objective their evidence is, but it's a pretty weak argument to stop at that. You don't seem to be even starting at that, unless you think of some agenda a particular UN official has in ordering her minions to doctor the evidence about alleged YPG and SDF war crimes. And that the SNC and SOHR, who've also rebutted the "ethnic cleansing" claims, also have such an agenda. I've criticised Roy Gutman and called his Nation articles rubbish not just because he seems to be a cruise missile liberal who's a shill for Erdogan, but also because at least two of his sources have complained about his distortion of their words, because this has also happened in his previous work, because he leaves crucial facts out, because claims made by his anonymous sources are often absurd and/or completely contradicted by other evidence, etc. On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > On 3/15/17 7:18 PM, Nick Fredman wrote: > >> rather than something the boss of the agency apparently said 4 years ago >> about something else. >> > > > Yeah, well. I just don't trust someone like Carla del Ponte to oversee any > report about Syria in the same way I wouldn't rely on the word of > Islamophobe Max Abrahms, whose poll found that Syrian refugees blamed the > rebels just as much as they blamed Assad (cited by Rania Khalek in an > Alternet article). > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
