• Bad day to have eyes or be able to read English but what did I expect from the new yorck times?

    This article is really good at bending circumstances to fit your narrative. Then again that is what corporate media has mastered…

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I clicked to confirm my guess that this would be a David Brooks piece, and, of course it is.

    As a reminder, this is the kind of stuff he was writing in in February 2003:

    But suppose we are confronted with a problem of courage? Perhaps the French and the Germans are simply not brave enough to confront Saddam. Or suppose we are confronted with a problem of character? Perhaps the French and the Germans understand the risk Saddam poses to the world order. Perhaps they know that they are in danger as much as anybody. They simply would rather see American men and women–rather than French and German men and women–dying to preserve their safety.