By Clay Waters ~
After President Trump ordered the killing of terrorist mastermind Gen. Qasem Suilemani of Iran, the New York Times devoted the week in coverage to paranoia and fear-mongering over a potential war, as a sampling of headlines reveals.
On Friday left-wing “Interpreter” columnist Max Fisher weighed up things and found: “Scorecard of Washington vs. Tehran ‘Is Looking Bad for Both Sides.'” Fisher’s Friday newsletter, “The Calculus of Conflict With Iran” blamed Trump for kicking off a series of events (specifically, withdrawing from the Iran nuclear accord) that allegedly led to the killing of an eight-year-old girl on the commercial flight shot down by Iran:
On Wednesday, before dawn, Iran launched a series of missiles at American military targets in Iraq. It was retaliation for President Trump having ordered a drone strike on Iran’s top military leader, a sudden American escalation that had followed months of lower-level conflict between the countries. Later that morning, Ms. Haghjoo and Elsa boarded a flight bound for Kyiv, Ukraine, where they would change planes before continuing home to Toronto….findings released by the American and Canadian governments suggest it would have begun, for the passengers on board, with a sudden explosion….Most analysts consider the immediate conflict’s start to have come in May 2018, when President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear accord, imposed crushing sanctions on Iran and issued a series of maximalist demands.
Also on Friday was a story by Jennifer Steinhauer touting veterans “weary and wary” of “embarking on another war” in the Middle East. Steinhauer quoted one veteran who feels “the dark echo of Iraq,” with the journalist adding her own analysis: “American skepticism about employing military force, once derided by some as unpatriotic, is much more on display, even among veterans who may have directly faced the lethal danger that Iran presents in the Middle East.”
Baffling, considering the Times fretted over why so few supported invading Libya when Obama sent U.S. forces there. The paper faulted Americans for being more interested in the NCAA college basketball tournament and having “compassionate fatigue.”
Thursday’s front page also contained David Sanger’s “news analysis:” “A President’s Mixed Messages Unsettle More Than Reassure.” The jump-page text box warned, “Misunderstandings can prove to be as dangerous as missiles.”
The front page of Wednesday’s paper featured Peter Baker’s own “analysis:” “’Messy,’ ‘Hasty’ and ‘Impulsive’: A Bumper Car Presidency Keeps Even Allies on Edge.”
Also on Wednesday’s front page was “Democrats Press for Details on Threats Cited by Trump.” The lead sentence placed Trump on the defensive for killing a terrorist, er, a “top Iranian general”:
Under increasing pressure to defend the killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq, senior Trump administration officials offered new justifications but little detail on Tuesday, citing threats to the American Embassy in Baghdad and intelligence suggesting other imminent attacks that helped prompt the strike.
Clay Waters was the director of Times Watch a former project of the Media Research Center .
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willingwheeling
Sat 01/11/2020
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Lawrence Morra
Sat 01/11/2020
I absolutely agree and this kind of propaganda by the commie NYT is extremely dangerous and shouldn’t be allowed under the guise of being journalism or free press! If they want to figure out what led up to all these horrible problems they should go back 40 years to when the Islamic Republic of Iran started on their fanatical path of hate and destruction especially toward Israel and the United States because their entire agenda is a political Ideology, Nation of Islam; based control of the entire Middle East and Beyond, and that just can’t be allowed. The evil bastard OBOZO joined in with that agenda for the 8 years he was in office and promoted their agenda and now we have a leader that truly represents the American People and won’t tolerate the Evil Leaders of Iran to push their agenda on the free world or threaten Any American interests to defend ourselves and our allies! Iran must be held accountable and if necessary crushed in order to maintain stability in that region and that is just reality!
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PA Pundits - International
Sat 01/11/2020
NYT is a disgrace to the reporting industry.
They’re nothing but Nazi sympathizers.
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