As I read this article in New York Magazine, decrying Donald Trump as an ignoramus, a judgment with which I concur, something occurred to me. Which is worse, when all you know about Russia is Russian propaganda or all you know about Russia is U. S. propaganda?
Just as an example, the facts in Syria are that Russia and the Syrian government are fighting anti-government rebels there including DAESH while the United States is both fighting and supporting DAESH by supporting rebel groups affiliated with DAESH. Civilians are being killed in DAESH because civilians are killed in war. Are the Russians and the Syrians targeting civilians? I honestly have no idea. I’m confident that the U. S. isn’t targeting civilians but we’re killing them nonetheless.
Given that the current US propaganda about Russia is that Putin is WORSE THAN HITLER ™*, I’d have to say that having all one knows about Russia being US propaganda is worse.
* Bit then, who isn’t WORSE THAN HITLER ™ these days? Trump, cartoon frogs, dead gorillas, hell, even Mitt Romney was officially WORSE THAN HITLER ™ for a while. It’s a veritable Boys from Brazil situation out here!
I have never seen anyone say Trump is worse than Hitler. Of course there are plenty on the right who think he should be their party’s POTUS candidate.
Anyway, back to reality, I strongly suspect the Russians have knowingly killed civilians. Doubt they care that much. There aren’t any good guys here, but I think we can identify the worst group, which would be IS. While I think our best alternative is to stay out of this as much as possible, and our next is to minimize what we do, if we are going to be involved we should work with Russia, Syria and Iran against IS, even if it means working against Israel.
Steve
Don’t compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. It belittles Hitler.
By Shalom Auslander
September 13, 2016 at 6:00 AM
I grant that the Washington Post is an extremely obscure periodical on the extreme left of American society, but there it is.
Back to reality, lol!