You can include left journalism as part of the collateral damage from
the August 20 chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs. Written
to defend Syria against Obama’s war machine, a number of articles have
failed to pass the smell test. There is a sense that the ends justify
the means as someone put it in a Facebook discussion:
If someone wants to “write some bullshit that has as much basis in the
evidence as 911 [“truther” theories],” that’s fine with me…Anything to
obstruct a U.S. imperialist attack on Syria gets a green light with me.
Maybe I am the only person on the left that is not fine with telling
lies to oppose American intervention. Sometimes I feel like Joe Buck in
“Midnight Cowboy” who stops dead in his tracks when he spots a bum
sprawled out unconscious or maybe dead on a NYC sidewalk as others pass
by in total indifference. Why should I get worked up over a little white
lie that gets Bashar al-Assad off the hook? Just move along, nothing to
see here.
full:
http://louisproyect.org/2013/09/12/when-truth-is-the-first-casualty-of-warfare/
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