Posted on 09/13/2013 3:05:13 AM PDT by markomalley
CNN Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour flipped out on the AC360 Later Syria panel Thursday night, calling out the “false moral equivalence” of anti-interventionists. She clashed with blogger Andrew Sullivan over the emotion in the case, shouting down her fellow panelists to get a word in edgewise.
After Anderson Cooper and Sullivan brought up the need to separate the emotion from the policy, Amanpour sighed and said, “I can barely contain myself at this point.” She proceeded to go on a rant about the “false moral equivalence” in arguing against going in.
“How many more times do we have to say that weapons of mass destruction were used, and as bad as it is to decapitate somebody, it is by no means equal. We can’t use this false moral equivalence about what’s going on right now. They tried to do it in the second World War, they tried to do it in Bosnia, they tried to do it in Rwanda, and they’re trying to do it now. There is no moral equivalence.”
When the others tried to jump in, Amanpour shouted, “Wait just a second!” She firmly argued that Obama simply cannot allow Assad to get away with using chemical weapons, noting how Bill Clinton is still apologizing for Rwanda. Sullivan jumped in to say, “This is not reason, this is emotion.” Amanpour fired back, “It’s not emotion. This is history coming out.”
They clashed over whether turning away from such terrible crimes is sometimes in America’s national interests, while Charles Blow accused Amanpour of painting a “false choice” about not caring about dead kids and not wanting to bomb Syria. She cried, “Nobody’s saying that! You’re playing rhetorical games!”
Watch the video below, via CNN:
Da** spell checker. Andrea Peyser.
She will be the first one on the ground showing us the dead children killed by US bombs.
Everything I need to know about Amanpour is hanging on her dining room wall.
The “artist” is Farideh Lashai, an Iranian woman, who has now gone to be with Allah (piss be upon him).
Apologists claim the painting was done two years before 9-11, and that it represents flowers in a vase, but what matters is what Amanpour thinks it represents, and there’s no one who can look at it and not see the burning twin towers.
Every time I see/hear her I’m reminded of Peter Arnett and GW I.
Remember him? Reporting from Baghdad, spewing Hussein’s propaganda.
Her calling is with Aljazeera.
If that painting is of 9-11, it is not very good. Her taste in art is no better than her politics.
Yup. And no one - and I mean no one - has ever questioned her about this. Pure evil.
A picture of her and Yassir Arafat?
“Why would we care what any of this so called panel has to say?”
Because it’s influencing millions of people residing in the United States, and it needs to be countered?
Scroll to the middle of this thread and you’ll see what I mean.
Jawdropping. Send her back to Iran.
She’ll eventually make the (formal)switch to Al-Jazeera. She’s one of them. Notice the sand-colored military style jacket.
Leni
What pretentious crap.
Oh, those are just carrots! The “artist” likes vegetables!
Separated at birth from Samantha Power.
WTF? She said that? It seems being raised in a muslim country never lets the brainwashing rub off.
She shaves every morning...
It’s not a religion. Stop saying that. Islam is an ideology of hatred and a cult of death.
You see this is the most immoral of all.....when it gets to be that how one is murdered is more important than the fact they were murdered something is very wrong!!!
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