roachboy

the emphasis on suicide attacks in the press pool coverage of the war in iraq enables positions like stevo's to continue to function, despite the mountain of information that demonstrates that the linkages between the invasion of iraq and the "war on terror" were not worth the paper they were written on. his argument seems to depart from this "information"--suicide attacks are what "terrorists" do, al qeada is a terrorist organization, in the parlance of our times, therefore all suicide attackers are al qaeda. or like al qaeda. so the distinction does not matter.

it is not a very powerful or informative argument, in my opinion, except insofar as it accidentally reveals the source of its logic, which is the stream of infotainment the press pool relays from its daily pentagon briefings. a kind of "public diplomacy" dontcha know.

i suspect this kind of logic is important for the approximately 30% of the american population who actually support this idiotic war in iraq.

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