May 18, 2005

The Newsweek Affair

Un muy buen punto de Andrew C. McCarthy en National Review. El autor sostiene que si bien es cierto que Newsweek actuó muy mal y fue el detonante, el verdadero culpable de los muertos y demás manifestaciones anti EEUU y accidente es el fundamentalismo militante islámico. Esta falsa noticia sólo les dio la excusa:

The reason for the carnage is said — again and again, by media critics and government officials — to be a false report of Koran desecration. The prime culprit here is irresponsible journalism.

Is that what we really think?

Here's an actual newsflash — and one, yet again, that should be news to no one: The reason for the carnage here was, and is, militant Islam. Nothing more.

Newsweek merely gave the crazies their excuse du jour. But they didn't need a report of Koran desecration to fly jumbo jets into skyscrapers, to blow up embassies, or to behead hostages taken for the great sin of being Americans or Jews. They didn't need a report of Koran desecration to take to the streets and blame the United States while enthusiastically taking innocent lives. This is what they do.

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