[Enough is ENOUGH]

The subversive leftist editors of the New York Times who loathe the Constitution will probably issue a follow-up anti-war story in the near future that in the Afghanistan War against the Taliban the U.S. government knew the Northern Alliance was butchering the al queda/taliban fighters yet we continued backing the Northern Alliance anyway.

[sailor4321]

Actually, the pattern has been to get the Brits to say it. Thus, during Kosovo, we were told (by Brit media) that the Serbs were slaughtering Albanians by the tens of thousands (in fact, the number 100,0000 was used just before Clinton authorized attacks on civilian targets (a war crime) in Serbia. When, as it turned out later, there might have been a couple of thousand Albanian's killed by the Serbs (with perhaps the majority of those being combatants), the US media who so uncritically used and quoted British media had "clean" hands --- so clean, in fact, that the discrepancy between what we were told was happening and what was in fact happening has never really been explained. Further, the media were essentially silent regarding the attacks on civilians (for which we roundly condemned the Nazis in WWII, the N. Koreans during the Korean War and the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam war and the Iraqi's during the Gulf War). In sum, the media have forgeited any standing to be a conscience by voicing a "middle American" perspective on events --- I think because they no longer know where "the middle" is. They believe the radical left is the middle; the middle is right wing and conservative is so extreme it should silenced by any means whatsoever.