With the advent of Al Jazeera America broadcasting news to many American homes in the last month, I thought it worthwhile to examine the differences between the way Al Jazeera covers events regarding Syria with the methods used by more widely watched American entities like CBS, NBC and Fox News. The result was interesting.
Al Jazeera is emphasizing what Bashir al Assad has to say about the possibility of an American strike against his forces. None of the other networks have that slant. In fact, Al Jazeera is repeating the threats that Assad has made that an American strike will lead to chaos as the Middle East "powder keg" explodes. Assad says that no one will be able to control the angry response to any American strike.
This entire story line is crap. There are nicer ways to put it, but Al Jazeera is pushing BS. Syria, Iran and Hezbollah will not retaliate for any two day American strike such as is presently being contemplated. Assad knows this. Al Jazeera knows this. In fact, everyone who understands the area knows this. Remember this: three times in the last six months, the Israeli air force has carried out air attacks against major munitions targets inside Syria. A convoy of advanced weapons, a warehouse of land to sea missiles, and another cache of advanced weaponry were destroyed. In addition, in the first of these strikes, the commander of the Iranian forces in Syria to assist Assad was killed. There was no Syrian response to these attacks. There was no Iranian response to these attacks. Hezbollah did nothing in response as well. Each of these entities realizes that a counterattack against Israel would have brought swift and severe retaliation. None of these groups want to see such retaliation especially in the middle of a civil war where they are far from winning the day. Imagine now that instead of the Israelis on the other side, you have the United States Air Force and Navy. A counterblow from those forces would be much worse than any that the Israelis could deliver. There will be no response to an American attack from any of these three.
So why is Al Jazeera parroting the Assad line regarding Syria? You can decide for yourself. My view is that while Al Jazeera America may have the word America in its name, it is certainly not operating with the best interests of America in its heart.
Al Jazeera is emphasizing what Bashir al Assad has to say about the possibility of an American strike against his forces. None of the other networks have that slant. In fact, Al Jazeera is repeating the threats that Assad has made that an American strike will lead to chaos as the Middle East "powder keg" explodes. Assad says that no one will be able to control the angry response to any American strike.
This entire story line is crap. There are nicer ways to put it, but Al Jazeera is pushing BS. Syria, Iran and Hezbollah will not retaliate for any two day American strike such as is presently being contemplated. Assad knows this. Al Jazeera knows this. In fact, everyone who understands the area knows this. Remember this: three times in the last six months, the Israeli air force has carried out air attacks against major munitions targets inside Syria. A convoy of advanced weapons, a warehouse of land to sea missiles, and another cache of advanced weaponry were destroyed. In addition, in the first of these strikes, the commander of the Iranian forces in Syria to assist Assad was killed. There was no Syrian response to these attacks. There was no Iranian response to these attacks. Hezbollah did nothing in response as well. Each of these entities realizes that a counterattack against Israel would have brought swift and severe retaliation. None of these groups want to see such retaliation especially in the middle of a civil war where they are far from winning the day. Imagine now that instead of the Israelis on the other side, you have the United States Air Force and Navy. A counterblow from those forces would be much worse than any that the Israelis could deliver. There will be no response to an American attack from any of these three.
So why is Al Jazeera parroting the Assad line regarding Syria? You can decide for yourself. My view is that while Al Jazeera America may have the word America in its name, it is certainly not operating with the best interests of America in its heart.
1 comment:
Al Jazeera is NOT "emphasizing" what Bashir al Assad has to say. The network just also shows Assad's comments, in addition to what Obama, Kerry, British PM Cameron (+ British MPs), French President Hollande, President Putin and the Turkish government have to say on the matter.
Al Jazeera just shows more angles of the story than you would get from any other American news network. I think that is not a bad thing. Not bad at all.
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