tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10384575.post113267602859491649..comments2024-01-02T17:48:07.739-05:00Comments on The Little Green Blog: Final Word on White PhosphorusNathan Bruschihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01335558831525808820noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10384575.post-1132752159165621392005-11-23T08:22:00.000-05:002005-11-23T08:22:00.000-05:00If they actually believed this, Howard Dean, Harry...If they actually believed this, Howard Dean, Harry Reid and Ted Kennedy would be an unrecognizable pile of charred flesh right now.<BR/><BR/>al-Qaeda, like any other organization trying to push an ideology, depends heavily on PR. Osama can recruit followers more effectively if he has an outlet to play his propaganda tapes. The people beheading contractors in Iraq are more likely to accomplish their goals if they have an outlet to play their beheading tapes. Et cetera. al-Jazeera provides this outlet. It's not entirely irrational to think that foreign policy objectives would be better served if al-Jazeera was a pile of rubble instead of an operating news station.<BR/><BR/>Tony Blair probably helpfully pointed out the downside of bombing a news station in a country that cooperates with the United States. It's hard to say that you support freedom if you're killing news reporters for the news they report, and I imagine that the Qatar chapter of al-Qaeda would probably get a huge boost in membership shortly after the bombing.<BR/><BR/>Horrible judgment for Bush to want to do this. I hope that the memo story turns out to be overblown, but I suspect that it isn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10384575.post-1132679600415427832005-11-22T12:13:00.000-05:002005-11-22T12:13:00.000-05:00This Al-Jazeera thing should be big and reminds me...This Al-Jazeera thing should be big and reminds me of the video of an F-16 firing on an Al-Jazeera journalist from the film <I>Control Room</I>.<BR/><BR/>Probably no one will care, though, because Republicans think it's okay to kill those whose politics they disagree with.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com