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EMBEDDED: WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION
was going to lose, or even suffer many casualties.
Rather, the danger was that we would unleash
chaos in Iraq, inflame the Arab world by inflicting
civilian casualties (which we have certainly
done), and cause terrible problems for ourselves
down the road, such as creating a new generation
of revenge-seeking terrorists.
“But ‘arguing with success?’ Please. Johnny
Apple’s problem isn’t just that he’s consistently
wrong. It’s that he tries on a persona-a-day, and
expects us not to remember or care what he
wrote just days before. Today’s Apple feature on
The Times’s front page celebrates the victory in
Baghdad. The headline: ‘A High Point in 2
Decades of U.S. might.’”
Fox News is winning Israel
IF Washington is winning the war, Fox News
(which has tied its brown nosing and brain washing
wagon to the Bush Administration) is scoring
some victories, too. Roger Alper writes in the
Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz: “America’s Fox News
network has been demonstrating since the start
of the war in Iraq an amazing lesson in media
hypocrisy. The anchors, reporters, and commentators
unceasingly emphasize that the war’s goal
is to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of
Saddam Hussein. The frequency, consistency
and passion with which they use that lame
excuse, and the fact that nearly no other reasons
are mentioned shows that this is the network’s
editorial policy . . .
“Fox looks like part of the propagandistic campaign
of systematic disinformation by the Bush
administration, while it accuses the Iraqi regime
of disseminating false information about the situation
on the battlefield . . . Like CNN, it presents
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to the globe the face of America and its perception
of reality, and it exports its dark side, the
infuriating side that inspires so much hostility:
the self-righteousness, the brutality, the pretension,
hubris, and simplicity, the feverish faith in
its moral superiority, the saccharine and infantile
patriotism, and the deep self-persuasion that
America is not only the most powerful of the
nations, but also that the truth is always American.
“For some reason, ever since Fox showed up
on Israeli cable, the other foreign networks have
become unnecessary. CNN was nearly removed,
BBC World has been thrown out of the cable
package, and both are suspected of hostility to
Israel. Fox, for whom Israel’s enemies are ‘the
bad guys,’ is the perfect alibi for the new fashion
of censorship. Who needs BBC when there’s
Fox?” ●
APRIL 11: LIBERATION FESTIVAL
FOR THIEVES AND TERROR
STATUES are relatively easy to demolish. Lies
and false impressions are far more difficult to
undercut. For three weeks now, we have heard
about a war organized according to “plan,” a
paint-by-numbers plan that no one has been
allowed to see or scrutinize. Now we are being
told that that plan was based on a more spontaneous
“opportunistic response,” as in “we will
see what’s happening and take advantage of any
opportunities.” It’s a form of military situationism.
There may be command but there is no control.
Let it rip and then we pick up the pieces
when we get around to it. It sounds mad, but