Quote Originally Posted by Xei View Post
You realise you're claiming that the White House wants to protect the Syrians and "the media" wants to abandon them? So... you're saying the ruling elite... don't have control of the American government.
That's not what I'm saying. I am making speculation based on a disturbing growing trend, that the media is making a circus out of these events. All these talks are about Assad, Obama blah blah. All of these discussions pull away from the simple horrible truth that a mass number of innocent people were gassed.

If the media rephrases the scenario as "innocent people were gassed, what will the world do?" suddenly people would think of the situation as something different. Something that reminds them of WWII when Jews were gassed. Innocent people who are unable to save themselves. If the media maintained its focus on that then people wouldn't be protesting in the streets against this war. They would be protesting the UN (not the US) to do something, save them.

The media really has that kind of power over diplomacy.

But the media is less focused on what we do know to be true (innocent people were gassed) and would rather focus more on the sketchy details, whether Assad is a bad guy, whether Obama is a capable president, blah blah blah.

Meanwhile, more innocent unarmed people are going to die. It always worries me when I feel the media is trying to focus your attention else where. See this, not that. Feel this, not that.

Am I saying that the media is telling us to abandon the Syria people? No, because as far as the media is concerned America is going to war no matter what.

And all I know is that it is the benefit of the elite that America goes to war, preferably a long, drawn out sketchy war with no clear end in sight.