Friday, 3 January 2020

Afghan Papers Inadvertently Document WaPo’s Role in Spreading Official Lies

quote [ If the Post is now publishing material demonstrating that US officials have been “following the same talking points for 18 years,” emphasizing how they are “making progress,” “especially” when the war is “going badly,” shouldn’t the paper acknowledge that it has been cheerleading this same line for all of those 18 years? Doesn’t it have a responsibility to examine how it served as a primary vehicle for those officials to spread these same “talking points” to spin the coverage in the desired fashion? ]

After 18 Years of US Occupation, Poll Finds Zero Percent of Afghans Thriving, 85 Percent "Suffering"

Already seeing plenty of headlines, social media posts, and memes trying to demonize Iran in the same way we do every other country the US sticks their nose into. Even saw a WMD style accusation floating around. I should hope those on the "left" remember that we're against war because it's wrong, not because Trump didn't get authorization or some legalese bullshit... but I don't have my hopes up.

#madprideWasRight

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endopol said @ 10:42pm GMT on 4th January
I believe this act of war should not have occurred. In condemnation of this act, I appeal to the universally recognized, demonstrably violated, constitutional powers of the Congress.
I cannot as easily appeal to the abhorrence of war, because I do believe that war has a finite, albeit huge price. But I believe that a country should act as soberly as possible in reckoning this price.

What in particular would you change about the constitution, aside from its provenance?


endopol said @ 10:44pm GMT on 4th January
To be clear, I believe this act of war should not have occurred. In condemnation of this act, I appeal to the universally recognized, demonstrably violated, constitutional powers of the Congress.
I cannot as easily appeal to the abhorrence of war, because I do believe that war has a finite, albeit huge price. But I believe that a country should act as soberly as possible in reckoning this price.

What in particular would you change about the constitution, aside from its provenance?


endopol said @ 10:45pm GMT on 4th January
To be clear, I believe this act of war should not have occurred. In condemnation of this act, I appeal to the universally recognized, demonstrably violated, constitutional powers of the Congress.
I cannot as easily appeal to the abhorrence of war, because I do believe that war has a finite, albeit huge, price. But I believe that a country should act as soberly as possible in reckoning this price.

What in particular would you change about the constitution, aside from its provenance?



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endopol said @ 10:42pm GMT on 4th January
To be clear, I believe this act of war should not have occurred. In condemnation of this act, I appeal to the universally recognized, demonstrably violated, constitutional powers of the Congress.
I cannot as easily appeal to the abhorrence of war, because I do believe that war has a finite, albeit huge, price. But I believe that a country should act as soberly as possible in reckoning this price.

What in particular would you change about the constitution, aside from its provenance?




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