The Narrative on Syria a Year Later
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Nearly a year ago the news was flooded with the story about a gas attack on civilians in Syria. There were cellphone videos from the scene with kids dying on the streets and emergency responders rendering aid. The world watched these videos with horror as expected and the finger pointing started right away. Everyone was pointing at everyone else, the Syrian government was pointing at the terrorists and well the rest of the world was pointing at the Syrian government. The United States was so convinced of the “evidence” against the Syrian government that an attack was carried out against the airbase where the attack started from. The United States carried out an act of war against the Syrian government and hardly anyone seemed to care.
At the time we here, along with others, questioned if the narrative that was been put out by the media at the time was true. It made no sense for the Syrian government to gas attack people in a war he was winning. It became clear too that the news media seemed hell bent on pushing the American people into war fever and leading us to war.
Now nearly a year later Secretary of Defense Mattis in a memo was quoted that there was no evidence that the Syrian government had actually carried out the chemical attack. The memo release comes amid many reports that not only bring up questions about who carried out the attack but if there was actually an attack at all! Chemical weapons experts are now even calling into question if Sarin gas was used as the first responders weren’t wearing proper protective equipment if any at all and suffered no ill impacts upon their health. More can be read from those experts here. This wouldn’t be the first time that the media in the United States has tried to push the nation to war. The Spanish American war is a great historical example and more recently the invasion of Iraq in 2003 was pushed too by most media outlets. War sells papers and it seems many don’t care how those sales are made no matter the cost.
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