| Author | Message | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:01 pm Post subject: Lara Logan's Pro-Drone Propaganda on CBS '60 Minutes' |
| Lara Logan's Pro-Drone Propaganda on CBS '60 Minutes'
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http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/06052009/watch.html
JEREMY SCAHILL: Now, I have a lot of respect for Lara Logan, the CBS correspondent. She's really put her neck on the line and been in the thick of battle, and has been injured in battle. But I think that this piece was propaganda. She allowed the military to make claims about the effectiveness of their weapons that are being contested passionately by the people on the ground in Pakistan itself. I recently did an article about "Time" magazine's coverage of this. They said that the Taliban are using civilians as human shields. And that's why so many civilians have been killed. Their source for that was an Air Force intelligence officer who was allowed to speak on as though it was a Pentagon press release. I think that this is sick. Where you turn war, essentially, into a videogame that can be waged by people half a world away. What this does, these drones, is they it sanitizes war. It means that we increase the number of people that don't have to see that war is hell on the ground. And it means that wars are going to be easier in the future because it's not as tough of a sell.
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Even the Pakistani MP on C-SPAN's 'Washington Journal' this morning conveyed that the drone attacks are incredibly destabilizing to Pakistan:
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=286480-5
Obama Steers Toward Endless War With Islam
http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/wake-up-america-your-government-is-hijacked-by-zionism/2009/05/20/obama-steers-toward-endless-war-with-islam.php
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