Blair just did what he was taught from his seniors in the newsroom.
The New York Times – through its editors and senior reporters – are following in the footsteps of that Great Icon of anti-American Reporting, Walter Cronkite. What I find troubling about many of these pro-Jihadists is their absolute faith that what they are doing is right. If they wrote and published anything even remotely pro-American they think they might be viewed as being Government Stooges. They feel it is better to be seen as the terrorists’ stooges.