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Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Aid to Billmon
Not that Billmon really needs the help, but I thought I'd do a little research on his thesis, anyway:...Back when the wingnuts were still arguing that Quran abuse was nothing but a reckless lie of the liberal media, the standard conservative line was that the Newsweek story was an utter disaster for American foreign policy, a setback of monumental proportions in the global war on terrorism and the proximate cause of countless deaths in Afghanistan and elsewhere.
But, now that the Pentagon has actually admitted that the Quran was desecrated at Guantanamo, it's "just a book" and what's the big deal anyway?
Proving once again (as if further proof was needed) that the little green football heads and their kin have no clue -- not even a trace -- about the kind of war the United States is fighting, or why it is in considerable danger of losing that war.
- May 15: Newsweek ran an explosive story based on a single, unnamed source that it knew would cause a huge effect on the Muslim world, at precisely the moment when we need to ensure that people understand that we're not at war with Islam. It's just a little late to say, "Oops, we're sorry." It's a little late to unring the bell that Newsweek rang with its false story -- it's too late for the nine people who died because Newsweek couldn't wait to run its story without checking it properly first.
- May 16: A couple of hours ago, Newsweek retracted its false story about flushing Qu'rans down Gitmo toilets that started deadly riots in the Middle East, costing 16 lives
- May 17: Perhaps Isikoff and Whitaker won't be satisfied until hundreds or thousands lie dead in violent protests touched off by irresponsible reporting. The irrationality of the Islamic lunatics who create killing zones over such matters is their own responsibility, of course, but Newsweek still has not addressed what it saw as the newsworthiness of the reports, even if true. What issues were at play? What laws had been broken? The truth is that Newsweek only reported this because it knew it would make the military and the Bush administration look bad by being culturally insensitive to radical Muslims.
